Unboxing Amazon’s New $15 per Hour Minimum Wage0

• Economics
• October 3, 2018

Many people assume that to raise wages, big companies must be dragged along by government policy. Amazon’s eye-opening announcement yesterday suggests otherwise. The online retail giant announced it would raise its company minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour, and lobby for an increase in the federal minimum wage. This new policy is not merely cosmetic. Amazon’s