{"id":35011,"date":"2018-02-06T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35011"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T14:21:29","slug":"qotd-the-original-goal-of-the-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/qotd-the-original-goal-of-the-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The <em>original<\/em> goal of the minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For progressives, a legal minimum wage had the useful property of sorting the unfit, who would lose their jobs, from the deserving workers, who would retain their jobs. Royal Meeker, a Princeton economist who served as Woodrow Wilson\u2019s U.S. Commissioner of Labor, opposed a proposal to subsidize the wages of poor workers for this reason. Meeker preferred a wage floor <em>because<\/em> it would disemploy unfit workers and thereby enable their culling from the work force.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Leonard, <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.aeaweb.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1257\/089533005775196642\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era&#8221;, <em>Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/em><\/a>, 2005-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For progressives, a legal minimum wage had the useful property of sorting the unfit, who would lose their jobs, from the deserving workers, who would retain their jobs. Royal Meeker, a Princeton economist who served as Woodrow Wilson\u2019s U.S. Commissioner of Labor, opposed a proposal to subsidize the wages of poor workers for this reason. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,7,41,13],"tags":[96,1020,266],"class_list":["post-35011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-history","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-minimumwage","tag-progressives","tag-protectionism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35012,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011\/revisions\/35012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}