In Jeffrey Dorfman’s article, ‘Almost Everything You Have Been Told About The Minimum Wage Is False’, the author responds to three misconceptions: policy discussion is over a very large group of people, most of these workers are poor and need to support a family on only their earnings, and minimum wage should have risen at the same rate as worker productivity to ensure that workers continue to take home the same share of the value of the output they produce. He points out the misconception and uses statistics to prove those are wrong. As those concepts are wrong, the author sets up his own argument that what you have been told about the minimum wage is false.
For example, the author uses Liberals’ claim that if the minimum wage is related to
