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Minimum wage hikes hurt our least-advantaged workers
Matthew Lau
By making labour more expensive, the minimum wage reduces employment.
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Minimum wage hike will hurt—not help—vulnerable workers
Minimum wage increases can lead to employment losses for the least advantaged members of the labour force.
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Minimum wage hike won't reduce poverty in Nova Scotia
Ben Eisen, Alex Whalen
An estimated 91 per cent of minimum wage earners in the province do not live in low-income households.
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Minimum wage hikes won't reduce poverty in Canada
More than half of Canadians earning the minimum wage are between the ages of 15 and 24.
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Minimum wage hikes—not a good way to reduce poverty
Tegan Hill
Over the past decade, the Alberta government has raised the minimum wage by 46 per cent.
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Who Earns the Minimum Wage in Canada?
Ben Eisen, Milagros Palacios
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Renewed controversy over the Nobel Prize in economics
Philip Cross
The Nobel apparently endorsed a paper that contradicts the vast majority of research on minimum wages and job losses.
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Higher minimum wages do not lower poverty rates
The youth employment rate fell by a full point in Ontario between late 2017 and early 2020.
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The Minimum Wage, Lost Jobs, And Poverty in Canada
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June 5, 2020 10:37AM
B.C. minimum wage hike may actually hurt workers it's designed to help
Ben Eisen
The Horgan government raised the province's minimum wage to $14.60.
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