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In the latest twist in the sexual harassment controversies roiling Congress  Republicans have taken to defending  Democratic Sen. Al Franken .
Yes  thatâs right. While  Franken  announced Thursday  he  would resign in the âcoming weeksâ amid growing allegations of sexual misconduct  some Republicans are not so sure  he  should have to leave the Senate.
âWhat you saw today was a lynch mob â former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday on Laura Ingrahamâs Fox News show after at least 35 Democratic Senators called on  Franken  to step aside. âLetâs not have due process. Letâs not ask anybody any questions. Letâs not have any chance to have a hearing. Letâs just lynch him  because when we get done lynching him  weâll be so pure.â
Eight women have accused  Franken  of sexually harassing them  with the most recent being a woman who told Politico this week that  Franken  tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006.
But Gingrich is not alone in claiming the Democrats are not acting entirely out of sincere moral concern. When interviewing Gingrich on Wednesday  Ingraham also said she believes the Democrats are using  Franken âs situation to claim the moral high ground so they can try to take down Republicans accused of sexual misconduct like President Donald Trump and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.
They have used a variety of tactics to dismiss the claims against him  but many of them come down to Republicans saying they do not have proof he did anything wrong. That seems to be the argument GOPers are using again to defend  Franken .
And the Washington Examinerâs Byron York also raised concerns about  Franken  not receiving due process.

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Al Franken


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I dread many things about dining out in the coming year  from closings of beloved restaurants to ever-weirder ramen mutations. But the scariest of all may be the expansion of the online reservation app Tock  which makes you pay in advance for your meal at the time of booking — mostly at super-luxury eateries  but increasingly at lower-priced places  too.
The great Eleven Madison Park is the only place in Manhattan that currently uses three-year-old Tock for all seatings (though it’s also one of the very few restaurants worth such hassle). In Williamsburg  tiny Aska also uses the app exclusively. Now  Tock — which is used by just 300 US restaurants  compared to 43 000 for OpenTable and 1 000 for Resy — is trying to lure in lesser joints such as Té with Tock Intro.
Backed by millions of dollars in venture-capital funding  Tock promises great things to owners. Its platform can help them better manage reservations and reduce no-shows. Customers supposedly benefit from avoiding the hassles of reserving by phone.
But I hate having to buy a ticket for a meal — even for a world-class place such as Eleven Madison Park or Chicago’s Alinea  which is co-owned by Nick Kokonas  who also happens to be the founder of Tock.
Certain places that use OpenTable or Resy require a $50-a-head credit-card deposit. I’m not crazy about that  but at least we’re not giving them an interest-free loan of nearly $1 200  as a table for four would be at Eleven Madison Park reserved months from now on Tock.
Tock is striving to make inroads here by handling New Year’s Eve bookings at places that would otherwise use OpenTable or Resy. “New Year’s Eve has notoriously high demand and no-show rates  so we’re seeing a large number of restaurants using Tock Intro to combat the no-show issue ” says a company rep.
Among them: The Lambs Club and Lupa Osteria Romana — where you can only book the $275-per-head “Roman feast” starting at 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 31 using  Tock .
 Tock ’s strategy is to persuade users of the limited service to switch to the site full-time.  Tock ’s rep says  “Many restaurants start with  Tock  by offering a single prepaid experience  which is what you’re seeing with Lupa’s NYE dinner. After they see the full platform … they often transition all reservations over to  Tock .”

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The Daily Wire spoke with Michael Saltsman  the managing director of the Employment Policies Institute (EPI)  for clarification about the study. For background   Saltsman  received degrees in economics and political science from the University of Michigan  and was a field economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from 2006-2009. In addition to his position at EPI   Saltsman  is the vice president of Berman and Company  a public relations firm.
According to  Saltsman   California is an ideal state in which to conduct a study like EPIâs because "thereâs been a tremendous amount of minimum wage activity  both at the state level and then at the local level." This didnât come without difficulties  however.  Saltsman  noted that the team had to account for the impact of other economic factors on certain industries  like apparel manufacturing  which has been harmed by factors other than rising minimum wages:
 Saltsman  stated that Macpherson and Even "threw the kitchen sink" at this issue  running "models a number of different ways  accounting for different economic factors and trends that might have influenced the kind of employment trends weâre seeing absent a minimum wage." Additionally  they looked at data "county by county " omitting material they believed was weak or possibly unreliable.
Those hardest hit by minimum wage increases tend to work for businesses that "donât have a tremendous ability to absorb new labor costs " according to  Saltsman . Restaurants  for example  tend to have incredibly narrow profit margins  and government-mandated wage hikes force these businesses to cut costs. Unfortunately  cutting costs often means letting go of "less skilled or less experienced employees " replacing them with machines  and self-service options.
The best thing to do with government-mandated minimum wages   Saltsman  says  is freeze them. That way  the issue would become "less and less relevant" to the conversation.
There are some who argue that a $15 to $20 an hour wage is necessary for basic survival.  Saltsman  counters this contention with a sobering fact: "You can either have a $15 minimum wage  or you can have have the same number of jobs you have right now. You canât have both."
 Saltsman  believes in a more targeted approach to helping the working poor:
A more generous Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)  suggests  Saltsman   is one way to help low-wage workers  as "it has been more effective at reducing poverty than a higher minim wage  itâs better targeted  and creates an incentive to work." Moreover  "because itâs targeted through the tax code instead of a mandate on employers  you donât get some of the same unintended consequences" that come with mandatory minimum wage increases.
 Saltsman  also rebutted the progressive argument that businesses â both small or franchise-based businesses as well as large corporations â should absorb the costs of wage increases  saying that such an idea is "a pretty dramatic misunderstanding of how these businesses work."
"Itâs not as if thereâs some pot of corporate cash that franchise businesses are able to tap into  " Saltsman  stated  adding that franchisees essentially operate as small businesses:
While larger corporations might be better able to absorb certain costs  profit margins are still relatively narrow  according to  Saltsman . Additionally  itâs easy to forget that these companies employ thousands and thousands of people  and face overhead costs.
Regarding the seemingly excessive pay of company executives â something brought up frequently by progressive activists â  Saltsman  offered a rebuttal:
In conclusion  and to further illustrate the speciousness of the minimum wage argument   Saltsman  ran through a common scenario:

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Michael Saltsman