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Editor’s Insight: High minimum wages create unforeseen consequences

What happened when a company raised its minimum pay to $US70,000 a year.
 
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Wed, 19 Aug 2015

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The campaign to raise minimum wages will never cease. No amount of wages is too high for unions and workers.

But when a company in Seattle decided

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