Tag Archives: National minimum wage

  1. Lord Freud’s words were wrong. His economic analysis wasn’t.

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    October 17, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith

    Fact, unemployment for disabled people has remained stubbornly around the 50% mark for decades. Here is what Lord Freud had …
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  2. All eyes on Seattle: A ‘proper’ minimum wage is set at last

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    June 9, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith

    After a two year campaign driven by low-paid fast-food workers that had galvanised the electorate, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, Ed …
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  3. Miliband’s minimum wage policy could actually RAISE employment

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    May 20, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith

    Ed Miliband’s announcement yesterday of the intention of a Labour government to set a statutory minimum wage target linked to average …
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