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Roy’s Got Your Living Wage

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In trying to pull the poor out of poverty, some ironically turn to the living wage as a solution. Arbitrarily raising the wage of an employee, who does not increase productivity in return, will only end in the loss of more employees. Read Roy Cordato‘s reasoning in either the Myrtle Beach Sun News, the Charlotte Observer, the Herald Sun, or, my personal favorite, “Lawn and Landscape.”

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