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77. They Make Minimum Wage. They Could Save Your Life.

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Importance of Paying Nursing Assistants More

Can this industry afford to pay low-wage workers more money if we're only going to have more need in this area? I think it's an open question. What you'd want to factor is how much more do nursing homes have to pay for lower-wage workers? And then what does society get from that?

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