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Message: <blockquote data-quote="slowdriver" data-source="post: 3256507" data-attributes="member: 58852">"Anyone working in America surely deserves a better living standard than can be managed on $3.35 an hour. But there's a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of the job market. A far better way to help them would be to subsidize their wages or - better yet - help them acquire the skills needed to earn more on their own." - The "Failing" New York Times 1987</blockquote>