MORE OF NPR'S SOBERLY SPOKEN NONSENSE
In the left's continual pursuit to explain why things are horrible despite the low unemployment rate, NPR had a story of how workers 16-24 are having a tough time entering the job market. The theory is that these workers stop looking for work and it makes the unemployment rate drop. Can people just do that? Is there a segment of the workforce that doesn't need to pay their bills? "This doggone job market. I'll start eating again in the summer."
More interesting is the group portrayed in the story is the age group that free market economists have always argued are hurt most by minimum wage laws. Many Younger workers lack the skill set to be productive at the wage rates government demands, therefore they aren't welcomed into the work force.
What always gets me about NPR is that they don't dig back into their stories about minimum wage laws and cite this current example as the result of government policy.
The other funny story this morning was about private companies doing $100 million worth of work that was once done by the military. The usual critic thought it was a terrible idea because there wouldn't be any government accountability. What a laugh. At least a private company can lose their contract for screwing up. When a government agency misplaced over $1,000,000,000 in the 1990s, not one person was punished or held "accountable".
And Eric Alterman is sure that NPR isn’t liberal.
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