10-12. It has been argued that minimum wage freeze over the years has led to income inequality.118 However, governments in some countries are making a little progress.

In the United Kingdom, for example, the government has already voted to raise the minimum wage by 4.4 percent in April 2018 to £7.83 per hour compared to £7.50 in the previous year. Over the years, the UK government has been steadily increasing the minimum wage, which hovered at £6.91 per hour in 2012. Do you think that tackling salary inequities is best done by raising the minimum wage? Why?