Over the last couple of years one of the brightest spots, if that’s the right word for it, in the employment picture has been retail. Only three states have had a net decline in retail employment, as noted by Jed Graham in Investor’s Business Daily: North Dakota, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Of those two—Massachusetts and Connecticut—have recently enacted increases in the state minimum wage.
I think it’s premature to try to draw a causal relationship between the two but I do think it bears watching.
Take a moment to explain how placing a minimum sale price on apples will do more than waste those most imperfect apples.