Econ 101
Posted By Don Boudreaux On February 2, 2013 @ 11:48 am In Reality Is Not Optional,Seen and Unseen | Comments Disabled
Some comments on this recent Quotation of the Day post [1] (that featured a selection from Robert Higgs’s Competition and Coercion [2]) spark me to pose the follow question. It is not a trick question. Feel free to answer in the comments section.
If the legislated minimum-wage rises in the U.S., which of the following two people is most likely to benefit from that rise: (1) Joe, a black 17-year-old recent graduate of a New York City public school, raised by a single mother, living in a very poor section of inner-city New York, or (2) Jim, a white 17-year-old recent graduate of an exclusive private school, raised in a two-parent household, living in Manhattan’s very wealthy Upper East Side?
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