'Living Wage' Debate Should Focus on Philanthropic Values

To the Editor:

The May 2 article "Paying a High Price," by Michael Anft, discusses the negative impact that living-wage laws are having on the financial stability of some charities.

While that may be true, I think Mr. Anft misses a larger and more important point. Living-wage laws are not the problem. Mr. Anft falsely assumes a paradigm of scarce financial resources resulting in small interest groups being pitted against

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