With much silly talk now again ascendant in support of raising the minimum wage artificially and cruelly handicapping the lowest-skilled of low-skilled workers as they compete for employment, it’s a good time to again hear a truly great economics educator explain the matter. Here’s my late, great colleague Walter Williams.
Walter Williams Explains the Simple (Il)Logic of Using Minimum Wages to Help Poor Workers
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