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By Jane Coaston on April 26, 2021

Jane Coaston

"Jane Coaston is the host of "The Argument." Previously, she was senior politics reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism and the GOP. Her work has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and in National Review, the Washington Post, the Ringer and ESPN Magazine, among others. In addition, she is a former resident fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. She attended the University of Michigan, and lives in Washington, D.C."

"To Fight Poverty, Raise the Minimum Wage? Or Abolish it?"

This article originally appeared on The New York Times Opinion

"The minimum wage has stagnated at $7.25 an hour for more than a decade. Is increasing it to $15 the best way to fight poverty?"

Ashoka Fellow Saru Jayaraman, the president of One Fair Wage and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley joins Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer in the department of economics at Harvard University and the director of the Cato Institutes economic studies, and host Jane Coaston to debate. 

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