[Josh Martin]
Coyne’s article largely serves as a critique of raising the minimum wage as a policy to combat poverty. Debates over how high the minimum wage ought to be seem arbitrary, and Coyne argues that those in poverty face employment issues from a lack of hours, not wages. Coyne classifies raising the minimum wage as trying to do “social justice on the cheap” and instead calls for efforts to enact a minimum income.
Andrew Coyne, “Raising minimum wage won’t help end poverty but giving the poor more money will,” National Post, January 27, 2014.
The minimum wage is particularly ineffective at fighting poverty, partly because few people in poverty are employed at any wage, Andrew Coyne writes. (Leah Hennel/Postmedia News/Files)
