How Raising the Minimum Wage Helps Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic

And will lower our health care costs in the long run

The deleterious effects of poverty on personal health has been well documented. In 1848 German physician Rudolf Virchow, the father of social medicine, discovered that poverty and poor education were the key factors behind a typhus epidemic in Silesia. 

More recently, Dr. Richard Cooper posthumously published his magnum opus, “Poverty and the Myths of He…