Free Market
Author:
Timothy D. Terrell
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The Free Market 20, no. 3 (March 2002) My first “real job,” the summer before my senior year in high school, was selling shoes in a small retail store in my hometown. The job paid only what was then the federal minimum wage, $3.35 an hour, but, then, my labor was probably barely worth that. At least the work was honest and productive. The