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Letter: Editor's pick: Bread, circuses and lots of sport

Published 13 July 2016

From Derrick Grover

Hal Hodson does not sufficiently highlight the benefits to society of employers paying people a smaller wage as a top-up to a basic state income. Employers have less motive to make people redundant because the wage bill change will be smaller. This was discussed in the 1970s as a way to encourage more employment.

Haywards Heath, West Sussex, UK

Issue no. 3082 published 16 July 2016

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