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National Minimum Wage turns 15 – but it still fails to help those most in need
Len Shackleton
5 August 2013
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Last week, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) celebrated its fifteenth birthday. It has not been the disaster some feared – largely because the Low Pay Commission set rates conservatively, taking...
Increasing the minimum wage ignores economic realities
Stephanie Lis
16 April 2013
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In economically uncertain times, the government should strive to remove all blockages to employment, not create more. The national minimum wage is one such blockage. Whilst forced pay hikes may...
How to introduce a minimum wage without raising unemployment
Tom Papworth
2 June 2011
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Over at the Adam Smith Institute, Sam Bowman is discussing the minimum wage again. However, as is always the case in minimum wage arguments, supporters of a legal price floor are quick to...

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