Minimum Wage: Radical Solution

Published July 2, 2014 6:28pm ET



Rather than legislatively ratcheting up the legal minimum wage, with the attendant political grandstanding, hand wring, and finger pointing (we leave anything out?), how about this? Let’s kick the economy into high gear so that it expands so robustly that employers are pushed into competing for workers through the radical, unheard of mechanism of offering them higher wages?

Sounds way over the top, perhaps, but it is working in North Dakota as Rob Port of the Daily Signal reports:

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