Choking on the Big Apple
Posted in Employment, Price Controls on Jul 3rd, 2007
Last year, the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in New York City had to turn away nearly 30,000 applications for summer jobs, mostly black and Latino kids. Why? The Wall Street Journal Reports: “The higher state minimum wage that went into effect in 2005,” writes author David Jason Fischer, “added to the challenge of funding […]