[driftless]

Tom Sowell has been revealing this "news" for years. It is an axiom of all leftists that wealth is permanently unfairly skewed towards the rich and has to be taken from them by force either through violent revolution destroying everything or more subtle ways applying usurious tax rates. To many leftists wealth just exists, and since the rich have appropriated far more than their just share, the "poor" have a perfect right to extract goodies from them. To admit that poor people are actually capable of rising beyond their present circumstance without the aid of leftist agitators must be especially galling to lifetime lefties.

[ijcr]

This is why this article is so mind boggling. The author is way to the left, the institution is way to the left and the message appears to be that Labour needs to change it's mindset.

Poverty laws work against the poor.The most important legislation should be for the benefit of all.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Tom Sowell has been revealing this "news" for years.

The left loves to bloviate over how people in the lowest quintile of the income distribution. Sowell points out that the lowest quintile is so loaded with young people whose prospects are so good that it's more typical for a person to move from the bottom quintile to the top quintile within a decade, than it is for a person to remain in the bottom quintile for a decade.

Reduction or elimination of the "minimum" wage (the actual minimum is zero, applicable to everyone who is unemployed)presumably would reduce the average wage of employed entry-level workers, though not necessarily that of any existing human being.

The primary reason for the reduction in the statistical average would be the hiring of people who otherwise would be unemployed. In other words, it would be a blessing. A blessing disguised, by abuse of statistics, to appear as a bane.