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What’s the Deal with a $15 Minimum Wage?
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What’s the Deal with a $15 Minimum Wage?

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by on Apr 20, 2016 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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More money, fewer jobs.

Minimum Wage Law Backfires in American Samoa
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Minimum Wage Law Backfires in American Samoa

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by on Jul 06, 2011 in Featured, The Economy
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A 1961 Reader’s Digest piece called it “America’s shame on the South Seas.”  American Samoa remains relatively impoverished compared to the rest of the United States to which it is attached. Recent efforts to invigorate its economy offer a lesson in government planning and unintended consequences that those who seek to help the poor would […]