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UK Minimum Wage May Have Passed a Tipping Point

Driving up the cost of the lowest-paid workers means squeezing the wages of the rest.

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves 

Photographer: Andy Rain/EPA/Bloomberg

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The UK’s minimum wage has just gone up again.