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Minimum wage debate is in full swing again after President Obama desperately trying to save his approval rating – with the exception of Nixon, worse than any other postwar second-term president – urged Congress to raise its federal level...
There has been an increasing discussion in Germany of migration policy since free movement of people from Romania and Bulgaria inside the EU was allowed, that is for seven years of EU-membership. Many of the Bulgarians and Romanians who come...
New laws in Slovakia are passed like hotcakes and changed more frequently than socks, which creates a chaotic and unpredictable framework for citizens and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs and their organisations have been complaining about this...
In September of this year, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk announced his intention to undo pension system reforms and seize parts of the mandatory private pension funds. If implemented, this plan will lead to a pension fund nationalization...
Increasingly, we can see that the government declares something, but in practice does the exact opposite. There is not almost a single day without some governmental representative claiming that the priority for government is to tackle unemployment...
Short description of the problem: Privatization of a public library to secure its existence and quality functioning Country: USA Type of local government: Town Name of local government: Palm Springs, California Years of operation: 1992 –...
Rising youth unemployment in Europe has been a widely discussed issue over the last few years. Although millions of euros have been spent on youth employment programs, the result of these has been limited, to say the least. One of the main reasons...
Although the law introduced in 2003 made the vocational guidance obligatory in Polish schools, this kind of a course is not taken seriously by Polish teachers and decision makers. Unfortunately, they do not realize that the role of school is...
The Bank of England estimated that 40 per cent of the profits accruing from an expansion of the money supply flowed directly to the richest 5 per cent of households. The policy of low interest rates destroys the value of investments with fixed...
Kristian Niemietz from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) published an excellent book (http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/IEA Redefining Poverty Debate.pdf) in which he argues why a war on markets is no substitute...
