Neofascism: The Hoover Institution has long had a very serious intellectual quality control problem—prioritizing ideological rigidity over empirical engagement, coupled with an extreme unwillingness to police itself at any level. We look forward to a new round of claims that Trump’s next tax cuts will pay for themselves. And we loom back on the sorry tale of Hoover and the California fast-food minimum wage:

Jessica Burbank: “The [Hoover Institution] Minimum Wage Claims You Keep Hearing Are Totally Fake. We Can Prove It”: ‘In September 2023, California passed a law to bring fast food workers’ minimum wage up from $16 to $20 an hour. A flurry of reports predictably followed…. Hoover… a think tank with $879.8 million in total assets, continued to dig in against AB 1228, publishing multiple articles over the past year attempting to pin “lost jobs” on rising wages. At the heart of the research are three major claims made by Lee Ohanian…. 1. Government jobs account for 96.5% of job growth in California over 2.5 years, 2. California lost 410,000 jobs from February 2020-February 2024, and 3. California lost 10,000 jobs in the fast food sector since the minimum wage law was signed in September 2023…. All three claims are false, and the Hoover Institution has now had to retract six articles based on faulty research by Ohanian. The claims were first debunked by Invictus <bsky.app/profile/tbpinv…, an anonymous poster… <dropsitenews.com/p/7151…>