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Does the minimum wage need to keep up with the cost of living?
No, it does not strictly "need" to in a mechanical or absolute sense, but there are strong normative, practical, and economic arguments for why it often should track or approach cost-of-living measures (or broader benchmarks like median wages/productivity), alongside important trade-offs and alternatives. The question mixes economics, ethics, and policy; evidence is mixed and depends on magnitude,