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Where the fight for a $15 minimum wage goes from here

by Andrew Hanson

Dec 9, 2020

issues: Finance and Trade, Future of Work

originally published in Quartz

Economists in the past have expressed concern that increases to the minimum wage could hurt employment in low-wage areas, since the wage hikes would be relatively steep in those places.

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