The Red baiting is getting tiresome. Is Brazil communist? Look at what they have done lately.
This economy can take combinations of higher minimum wages and negative income tax to the point that poverty is basically eliminated?
Is Finland Communist? 5% poverty rate.
How is poverty defined? The % of the working population making less than half of the median wage. It is therefore relative to a societies capacity to deliver the goods.
Your ultra left agenda is also getting tiresome.
Brazil, a miracle driven by destroying the rainforest we depend on for our oxygen?
I can not comment on Finland, however scaling an economy the size of Finland to North Americas is bound to encounter some structural issues, which will negate your hypothesis.
So if poverty is defined as making 1/2 the minimum wage, logic dictates there are people not making the minimum wage
Raising the minimum wage ( as you have advocated) only means now they are making a smaller fraction of the minimum wage and there are more people below that poverty threshold.
Another win for the working man?