Grand Bargain or Grand Boondoggle? (Audio: Podcast)
IPI's Tom Giovanetti and Merrill Matthews discuss how raising the federal minimum wage harms the very people it's designed to help.
Effort to Reduce Income Inequality Helped or Harmed by Big Box Stores? (Audio: Interview)
What’s the impact of wage standards and workers’ benefits to taxpayers in relation to large employers, including Wal-Mart and Costco? Merrill Matthews on the Jan Mickelson Show, heard on WHO-AM in Des Moines.
Fixing the Doc Fix: Congressman Burgess Joins Merrill Matthews (Audio: Podcast)
Special guest Congressman Michael Burgess joins Merrill Matthews to discuss the repeal of the SGR, how the Obamacare website failure affects him personally, and the GOP alternative to achieving health care reform.
Pass the Bill to Find Out What’s In It, Like This Shocker About Medicaid (Audio: Interview)
You won’t believe what the fine print says in the Medicaid portion of Obamacare if you have outstanding Medicaid bills upon your death. Plus, the devastating effects of increasing the federal minimum wage on low-skilled workers. Merrill Matthews joins Wisconsin’s Vicki McKenna, heard on WIBA, WISN, and WEAU.
Demonstrating Further Economic Stupidity with Minimum Wage Hike Proposals (Audio: Interview)
Nothing shuts down businesses or sends low-skilled workers back home to live with parents quite like raising the federal minimum wage to a new high, Merrill Matthews tells WINA’s Rob Schilling on the Schilling Show.
How to Keep Low Skilled Workers Poor and Homeless: Raise the Minimum Wage (Audio: Interview)
Merrill Matthews joins KMED’s Bill Meyer explaining basic economics and what the disastrous consequences of raising the minimum wage would be to income inequality.
Ryan's Budget Deal: A Ransom to Prevent Another Government Shutdown? (Audio: Podcast)
What's in the Ryan-Murray budget deal, and did Ryan compromise too soon on abandoning the sequester spending restraints? Did the government shutdown serve as the final indictment and poison the well for Republicans on future budget standoffs? And a look into the growing tensions between the GOP leadership and conservative groups.
Deconstructing the Doc Fix (Audio: Interview)
Obamacare could cause such a draconian cut on both Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements that doctors may stop taking new patients from these programs altogether. Merrill Matthews talks with WAVA-FM's Don Kroah.
Harry Reid Erodes Power of Senate (Audio: Interview)
In an interview on the Janet Mefferd Show, Merrill Matthews discusses how Harry Reid pulling the nuclear option trigger erodes critical powers from the Senate and cedes them to the administration.
The Majority Leader Who Diminished the Senate (Audio: Podcast)
Harry Reid has pulled the nuclear option trigger in the Senate, begging the question if he even cares about his legacy. History books may describe Reid as the majority leader who diminished the role of the Senate to allow President Obama to pack the DC circuit court and better advance his own agenda. But if Republicans win in 2014, will Democrats regret this rewriting of Senate rules?
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