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Does the minimum wage need to keep up with the cost of living?
No, not necessarily as a strict requirement, but there are strong arguments that it should in order to preserve its real value and original purpose—and many jurisdictions already do so via indexing. The answer depends on policy goals (poverty reduction, fairness, preventing exploitation vs. maximizing employment/flexibility), economic trade-offs, and local conditions. It is not an automatic econom