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The Case of the Minimum Wage

The minimum wage debate is one of the most central, complex, and controversial economic debates in the United States. Part of the problem is that there is a lack of understanding of what the minimum wage is, where it comes from, and what it does. Another part of the problem is that the two sides of the debate tend to talk past each other. I want to try and lay out what this is all about.