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460. The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight

Freakonomics Radio

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I Think the Minimum Wage Is a Successful Policy

Aaron dubay: I think the minimum wich so far has been a successful policy. It tends to raise wages at the bottom, lower poverty, and honestly, i think the highest quality research suggests job loss has been pretty small. He says we can go from 15 dollars per week to 20 by raising the wage of low-wage workers in some cases as much as 25 percent....

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