Flashback: Progressive Economists Wanted to Use Minimum Wage Laws to Make Brown People Unemployable

The Journal of Economic Perspectives has an amazing article. Professor Thomas C. Leonard reminds everyone what racists the "progressives" really were. Infamous economist John R. Commons described blacks as "indolent and fickle". You'll want to read this scholarly article : twice. Progressive economists understood that making the labor market less competitive would keep blacks "less" employed.