Issue 223

5 articles

Dear Dr. Dollar:

It’s conventional wisdom that when wages go up, as in the case of a union campaign or minimum wage increase, prices go up. My guess is that if the owners could have raised the prices, they would have already. What is the right answer? —Jeffrey Trivers, New Orleans

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