Absent high-quality retraining, it's easy for workers in dying industries to get stuck, for their skills to atrophy, and for their networks and work habits to erode. All of this shrinks the supply of skilled workers, discouraging employers and leading many big firms to look overseas.

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The Democratic leadership has announced plans to pass an increase in the federal minimum wage soon after their party takes over Congress in January. The current rate of $5.15 per hour has not been raised since 1997. Some...

How does raising the minimum wage affect employment?

Increasing the minimum wage is not the best way to helpstruggling single mothers, minorities, and the poor.

We have made progress in the forty years since the War on Poverty, but we must address more issues to help theAfrican-Americancommunity.

A text version of John McWhorter's speech on the crisis in black America.

Since the early 1980s, the black middle class has hardly grown. The most achievable remedy is to increase the college graduation rate of African Americans.