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Small businesses fear.  Can they afford it?
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"Unions hope, and small businesses fear, that a higher minimum wage will force all wages higher. "
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"So if the least skilled or least experienced employees in a firm receive a 50 per cent increase in the minimum wage, it follows that more skilled or experienced colleagues will demand a significant wage increase as well. The increase in the minimum wage will tend to push other wages higher."
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From: The poverty of minimum wage - Ron Kneebone, Special to Financial Post -  May 14, 2015 - online