The phrase "a modest minimum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or minimal requirement or standard that is considered acceptable.
Example: "The project requires a modest minimum of funding to get started, ensuring that we can cover basic expenses."
Alternatives: "a small baseline" or "a minimal threshold".
One study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research actually found there was no impact on unemployment levels of a modest minimum wage in the US.
So many companies are paying such low tax rates that even a modest minimum tax may result in a tax increase.
Australian Industry Group Ai Groupp) called for a modest minimum wage increase of 1.6%, or $10.50 a week for the lowest paid and $12.25 at the lowest level in trades.
With a modest minimum buy-in of $100, and a maximum payout of $250,000, the exchange said it was appealing more to mom-and-pop investors than Wall Street titans.
A modest minimum wage really won't do much damage, and businessmen know it.But there may be another reason for the lack of grumbling that ought to give the politicians pause.
In countries where those failures are severe and cannot be corrected, an incautious opening of the economy to foreign capital is likely to do much more harm than good.Reaching a modest minimum competence in regulation and economic policy is crucial for the emerging-market economies.
Economists Paul Wolfson and Dale Belman, two of the most respected authorities on the effect of minimum wage policies, wrote in an award-winning 2014 book that "modest minimum wage increases raise wages for the working poor without substantially affecting employment or work hours, providing solid benefits with small costs".
Both no-load funds carry a modest $100 minimum investment.
As we go further 'leftward' we encounter classical liberal views that allow taxation for (other) public goods and social infrastructure and, moving yet further 'left', some classical liberal views allow for a modest social minimum. e.g., Hayek, 1976: 87).
They found that "modest minimum wage adjustments lead to a small, or zero, effect on employment".
Moreover, there's now a biggish body of academic evidence that shows modest minimum wages (ie up to about 50% of the median wage) don't have big negative effects on employment.
