Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.