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Inhumanity of the Minimum Wage
Mises Daily
Author: Paul Poirot
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Category: Interventionism, Prices, Production Theory, Free Markets
  [April 1955] The Republican president of the United States believes that no person should be allowed or required to work for less than 90 cents an hour. The Democratic governor of New York urges raising the minimum wage to $1.25 from its present level of 75 cents. Except for such differences in detail, fixing a minimum wage by law has come to be
Is Public Housing Necessary?
Mises Daily
Author: Paul Poirot
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Category: Interventionism, Monetary Theory, Free Markets, Money and Banks
[The Freeman , 1958] “We must have better housing for those Americans who are now forced to live in slums and substandard dwellings.” So said a presidential candidate. And so believe a great number of the rank-and-file citizens of the United States. There really seems to be no question as to the desirability of adequate housing. But there are