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On minimum wages and talk radio

November 6th, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · 4 Comments · Media, Poverty, inequality & welfare

Today marks the third time in the past four months that I get booted off a pre-arranged radio interview on minimum wages in BC. What is it about this topic that the universe doesn’t want me to say on live radio? I mean, I try not to be superstitious, but the string of coincidences is [...]

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