Is the minimum wage a good thing? It depends on who you ask. For example, famed economist Milton Friedman was opposed to a minimum wage stating that, “…people whose skills are not sufficient to justify that kind of a wage will be unemployed.” He further conveyed that it was no coincidence that the unemployment rate for teens at the time was twice that of adults. Of course this was taken from an interview conducted several decades ago. More recently, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman debunked
Is the minimum wage a good thing? It depends on who you ask. For example, famed economist Milton Friedman was opposed to a minimum wage stating that, “…people whose skills are not sufficient to justify that kind of a wage will be unemployed.” He further conveyed that it was no coincidence that the unemployment rate for teens at the time was twice that of adults. Of course this was taken from an interview conducted several decades ago. More recently, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman debunked