Sam Bowman's comments on the Summer Budget in the Financial Times

Deputy Director Sam Bowman's comments on the Chancellor's latest Budget have featured in the Financial Times.

Sam Bowman of the Adam Smith Institute denounced the chancellor’s decision to impose a £7.20 minimum wage on business from April as a “disaster that will condemn tens of thousands of people to long-term unemployment”.

Mr Bowman wrote: “Almost all the most methodologically robust academic indicate that increases in the minimum wage kills jobs.”

Read the full article here.

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