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Low-Paid Workers and Poverty Reduction
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Discuss whether or not an increase in the wages of low-paid workers will reduce poverty.
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Labor Market and Income Distribution
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I. 🍃Introduction
- Definition of poverty
- Importance of understanding causes and effects of poverty
II. Why raising pay can reduce poverty
- Low pay as a cause of poverty
- Increasing income of poor can lift them out of poverty
- Increased spending on basic necessities
- Stimulating higher output and demand
- Investing in education and skills
III. Why raising pay may not reduce poverty
- Small increase in pay may not be enough
- Increase may be less than inflation rate
- Unemployment and lack of jobs for poor
- Increased costs of production for firms
IV. 👉Conclusion
- Importance of considering both sides of the argument
- Need for comprehensive solutions to poverty
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