minimum wage

8:36AM
Printer-friendly version
Minimum wage hikes hurt our least-advantaged workers

By making labour more expensive, the minimum wage reduces employment.


12:05PM
Printer-friendly version
Policymakers should protect workers and discourage unionization

Unions raise wages by limiting the supply of labour.


11:15AM
Printer-friendly version
Workforce recommendations would hurt Ontario workers

Minimum wage legislation reduces employment and non-wage benefits such as skills training.


9:18AM
Printer-friendly version
Minimum wage hike will hurt—not help—vulnerable workers

Minimum wage increases can lead to employment losses for the least advantaged members of the labour force.


9:29AM
Printer-friendly version
Minimum wage hike won’t reduce poverty in Nova Scotia

An estimated 91 per cent of minimum wage earners in the province do not live in low-income households.


9:42AM
Printer-friendly version
Minimum wage hikes won’t reduce poverty in Canada

More than half of Canadians earning the minimum wage are between the ages of 15 and 24.


11:14AM
Printer-friendly version
Minimum wage hikes—not a good way to reduce poverty

Over the past decade, the Alberta government has raised the minimum wage by 46 per cent.


9:38AM
Printer-friendly version
Renewed Controversy Over the Nobel for Economics
The Nobel apparently endorsed a paper that contradicts the vast majority of research on minimum wages and job losses.

1:40PM
Printer-friendly version
Higher minimum wages do not lower poverty rates

The youth employment rate fell by a full point in Ontario between late 2017 and early 2020.