Mises Wire
Author:
Chris Calton
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In 1966, Milton Friedman wrote an op-ed for Newsweek entitled “ Minimum Wage Rates .” In it, he argued “that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books.” He was, of course, referring to the then-present era, after the far more explicitly racist laws from the slavery and segregation eras of United States history had