Great new newsletter, and fascinating data. Gap between minimum wage and median is an interesting & ambiguous one though: obviously lots of people now arguing this has become so compressed in UK it’s negative for growth, making Neets figures worse etc
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In the first weekly issue of Trendline, launching this afternoon, I compare life in Britain with life in the US.
The UK is often compared with Mississippi, America's poorest state. I argue that we're much more like New York instead.
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