Minimum wage hikes result in low-skilled workers being less likely to find employment at an automatable job.
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August 16, 2017
4:00AM
The Wynne government plans to raise the minimum wage to $15.
August 2, 2017
10:11AM
A 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage leads to up to a four per cent drop in teen employment.
July 27, 2017
8:50AM
Twenty Canadian studies find that minimum wage hikes reduce employment opportunities for young workers.
July 21, 2017
12:41PM
The effect of the sharply rising minimum wage has been sharply rising joblessness among Seattle’s low-wage workers.
July 12, 2017
10:36AM
For every 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage, youth employment drops by three to six per cent.
July 11, 2017
4:30AM
Since 2003, manufacturing sales in Ontario have remained essentially unchanged yet increased by 20 per cent in B.C.
July 7, 2017
12:18PM
After Seattle’s minimum wage increased to $13 per hour, the total number of low-wage jobs declined by 6.8 per cent.
June 29, 2017
12:34PM
Premier Kathleen Wynne plans to increase Ontario’s minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next 18 months.
June 26, 2017
4:04PM
The total number of low-wage jobs declined by 6.8 per cent.