Alvin Singh: Focus on good jobs, not minimum wage

During his 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan proclaimed, “The minimum wage has caused more misery and unemployment than anything since the Great Depression.” A few years later in 1987, the New York Times editorial board claimed that minimum wage increases “would price working poor people out of the job market,” concluding that the concept “is an idea whose time has passed.”
In Alberta, the doom-and-gloom predictions came hard and fast when in May of 20