The vast majority of minimum-wage earners in Canada don’t live in low-income households, and most are teens or young adults living with family, a new study by the Fraser Institute finds, raising questions about the effectiveness of higher wage floors in reducing poverty. The study, “Who Earns the Minimum Wage in Canada,” found that 92.3 percent of the country’s minimum-wage earners live in households that are above Statistics Canada’s low-income cutoff line. More than half (53 percent) are aged between 15 and 24 in 2019, the latest year of available data, and among this group, 84.1 percent live with their parents or other relatives. “Raising the minimum wage is often presented as a strategy for helping the working poor, but these data raise questions about its efficacy in achieving this goal simply because most minimum-wage earners aren’t living in low-income families,” said study co-author Ben Eisen, a senior fellow at …