{
  "id": 3220621,
  "title": "Do Minimum Wages Help Worker in Poor and Low-Income Families?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/do-minimum-wages-help-worker-in-poor-and-low-income-families",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-25T07:32:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Marginal Revolution",
    "slug": "marginal-revolution",
    "url": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/08/do-minimum-wages-help-worker-in-poor-and-low-income-families.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "We provide the first direct estimates of the effects of minimum wages on low-wage workers in families at different points of the distribution of income-to-needs, using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, which oversamples low-income families. We find adverse – rather than beneficial – effects of minimum wages on the employment, hours, […] The post Do Minimum Wages Help…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}