Sentences with phrase «poorest workers already»

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But recently, new minimum - wage laws and a tight labor market have pushed up wages for the poorest workers, squeezing retailers who are already under pressure from Amazon.

For example Nick Thornsby calls for a regional minimum wage as «setting an artificially high minimum wage in the poorest areas, where business activity already tends to be limited, makes workers in those areas less attractive still to businesses looking to recruit: it weakens their comparative advantage.»