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460. The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight

Freakonomics Radio

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Do We Reduce Poverty?

The minimum wage is a blunt instrument to target the poor, says Mark Whitaker. "There's a lot of minium wage workers who aren't in poor families," he adds. About one and five people currently work at the federal minimum wage are ten agers,. Two in five are under twenty five years old....

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