Patrick Byrne

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Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

See this fine 1994 National Black Law Journal article: "The Davis-Bacon Act: Vestige of Jim Crow" https://t.co/0Ovz9GspJ1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Firms hiring Black construction workers were underbidding firms with unionized White workers (whose unions would not admit Blacks). The Davis Bacon Act (1931) was passed to shield Whites from Black labor market competition. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was the true origin of other minimum wage laws that began being passed that decade. The economic analysis of such laws is that they reduce the cost of discrimination to $0. When the cost of something falls, society consumes it more if it. This includes discrimination. — PolitiTweet.org

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