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How an increase in minimum wage backfires on the poor

Pedro VidelaFebruary 27, 2014

Income inequality has increased in practically every industrialized nation in recent decades. The best measure of that change is the Gini index, named after the Italian statistician Corrado Gini, who designed it in 1912. The index values vary between zero, when everyone has exactly the same income, and 1, when one person has all of […]

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The Time to Rethink the Healthcare is now

Núria MasNovember 21, 2013

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