How Marco Rubio is stealthily pushing Donald Trump to save the working class

Please, Trump, pay attention

Marco Rubio may convince Donald Trump to make a positive change.
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Maybe you've noticed that globalization and technological change have made things tough for lower-skilled workers in advanced economies. We've had a big election about that, and the "it really sucks!" candidate won. So what do we do about it now?

Well, a really cool thing would be if low-skilled workers could get a bigger paycheck. The left's idea is to raise the minimum wage, which seems like something from the mind of a comic-book villain. If you wanted to give employers the best incentive to replace marginal workers with robots, you couldn't have come up with a better policy. The minimum wage distorts the labor market in countless ways.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.