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Minimum Wage: An Historical Viewpoint, Part 1

Adkins minimum wage decision

Metropolitan Hospital Infirmary Ward, 1900
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If you have spent much time reading my blog you will know that I have written quite a bit about the immorality of minimum wage laws. Such laws insert government force into what would otherwise be voluntary, mutually beneficial arrangements. Because such laws are immoral and violate the rights of both workers and employers, the results they produce are harmful to everyone, especially those they are intended to help, the young and unskilled. As I wrote in 2013:

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