I'd like to see the antimarket slopebrows try to explain this one:
Worker Scarcity Boosts Pay in New Orleans
11/11/05
"Burger King is offering a $6,000 signing bonus to anyone who agrees to work for a year at one of its New Orleans outlets. Rally's, a local restaurant chain, has nearly doubled its pay for new employees to $10 an hour. . . . Ten weeks after Katrina, government officials and business leaders worry that a scarcity of able-bodied workers is hampering the area's recovery. In their desperation, they are using a variety of tactics to attract workers." (New York Times, Friday)
Wage-gouging!
FEE Timely Classic
"Why Wages Rise: 1. Labor Unions?" by F. A. Harper
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Need you provide one insolent lawyer (infamous as well according to Wikinerds) with more tongue-in-cheek anti-BK fodder?
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