Raghu writes: "This is nonsense. Minimum wage and safety net policies were implemented with the stated goal of providing aid to low-income people. These policies may, as an inevitable side-effect discourage the employment of human beings, but to suggest that this is the intended purpose of progressive public policies is ridiculous."
You may not want to accept it, but the original purpose of minimum wage laws, as explicitly advocated by your progressive predecessors, was to remove low-skilled workers from the workplace, especially women and blacks, to remove competition from white males. This was related to the progressives' eugenic concerns, which was stuffed into the black hole of progressive history. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/10/the_secret_hist.html. David Shemano
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