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Minimum Wage, Heeyah!

Julian Sanchez | 7.12.2004 10:41 AM

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Economist Steven Landsburg says concerns about minimum wages (at realistic rates, anyway) costing jobs are mostly overblown… but they're still a bad idea.

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Julian Sanchez is a contributing editor at Reason.

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