The Job-Killing Impact of Minimum Wage Laws

06/14/2010 Mises Wire Joseph T. Salerno

Kudos to the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation for a brilliant and hard-hitting short video demolishing the perennial economic fallacy that minimum wage laws benefit low-skilled workers. It is perfect for introducing the topic to a Principles of Economics class.

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