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Progressivism's Failures: From Minimum Wages to the Welfare State

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04/08/2021Eben Macdonald

The empirical evidence shows that neither minimum wages or welfare reduce poverty. In fact, minimum wages tend to increase the cost of living while poverty rates have gone nowhere since the Great Society was introduced.

Original Article: "Progressivism's Failures: From Minimum Wages to the Welfare State"

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Eben Macdonald

Eben Macdonald is a 16-year-old student, a keen free-marketeer, and he wants a society which is predicated on liberty.