From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with Charles Steele from Hillsdale's economics department about

democratic proposals on the minimum wage.

Author Mary Graybar will describe her new book, Debunking Howard Zinn.

We go to the world of physics with

Tim Dolch of Hillsdale College to talk fast radio bursts. And we hear excerpts from a speech from

nationally syndicated radio host and author Dennis Prager at a national leadership seminar event

that Hillsdale College put on earlier this year. First, joined now by Dr. Charles Steele, Associate Professor of Economics and Hermann

and Suzanne S. Detweiler chair in economics, business, and accounting at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Steele, thanks for joining us.

Thank you.

Have you here today to talk a little bit about the minimum wage.

Of course, a topic of conversation among many

presidential candidates as we run toward 2020. What have we heard? What have you heard various

2020 Democratic candidates say about the minimum wage and what they might do with it?

Well, I'm not sure how many Democrat candidates there are right now.

It's hard to keep track of them all.

I hear some of them drop out, and I didn't realize they were in.

I'm not sure they had remembered they were supposed to announce.

But so far as I know, every single candidate for the Democrat nomination has come out in favor of increasing the minimum wage

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