Why market forces will overwhelm a higher minimum wage
Why market forces will overwhelm a higher minimum wage
- May 9, 2015
- An op-ed by David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is featured in the Los Angeles Times May 9, 2015
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From the LA Times:
Progressives who want to help low-income families by pushing for higher minimum wages
would do better to channel their energy toward methods of redistribution that do less
to harm the least-skilled, and more to help them. … David Neumark is Chancellor’s
Professor of Economics and director, Center for Economics & Public Policy at UC Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-neumark-minwage-20150510-story.html.
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