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Abolish the Minimum Wage? It’s No Fantasy

11 April 2013

Thomas Hedges

Free market advocates tried to convince an audience at Washington, D.C.’ Burke Theater last week that the minimum wage should be abolished.

James Dorn of the Cato Institute and popular economist Russ Roberts faced Jared Bernstein from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Karen Kornbluh, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, in an Oxford-style debate facilitated by the organization Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S.

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