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Episode 13: The Minimum Wage Conspiracy

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The Magic Number for the American Minimum Wage

CNN's John Sutter asked people what percentage of the American workforce they assumed was making minimum wage. He got a couple of people that said 20, 20%. And then any number of folks came in right around 30%. It's an interesting observation bias because we keep hearing about the minimum wage and you start to naturally think this must be a big problem.

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