“Too high” or “too low”? Assessing Nova Scotia’s modest minimum wage hike
On April 1st, Nova Scotia’s minimum hourly wage increased from $12.55 to $12.95. Is it now “too high” or “too low”?
Lars Osberg is the McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, and author of the new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report From Keynesian Consensus to Neo-Liberalism to the Green New Deal: 75 years of income inequality in Canada.
On April 1st, Nova Scotia’s minimum hourly wage increased from $12.55 to $12.95. Is it now “too high” or “too low”?
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