StarEditorial: 'About 750,000 Ontarians earn the minimum wage,' writes the Star Editorial Board. 'It will be good for all of us if that rate becomes a little bit richer in the months ahead.'
An enduring shibboleth of a certain set of politicians and economists was the allegedly pernicious effect of minimum-wage increases on the public good.
Whatever he may have thought about the swimming rule, Premier Doug Ford was once a stern opponent of hasty rises to the minimum wage. Card’s work went back to the 1990s, when surveys suggested 80 per cent of employers believed minimum-wage raises increased unemployment among younger and lower-skilled workers. A new study released just last week updates that,Whether it was this kind of research or, more likely, an imminent consultation with voters, Ford is singing a different tune these days.
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