Los Angeles becomes latest US city to favor $15 minimum wage
Los Angeles becomes latest US city to favor $15 minimum wage
- May 20, 2015
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is quoted by The New York Times, CBS, Yahoo! News, The Dallas Morning News, and Star Tribune May 20, 2015
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From the NYT:
Among other things, the higher wages may prompt employers to eliminate the least-skilled
workers. Also, many minimum-wage workers aren't poor – many are teenagers who eventually
get better jobs – while "most poor families have no workers at all," argued David
Neumark, director of the, Center for Economics & Public Policy at University of California,
Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/20/us/ap-us-los-angeles-minimum-wage.html?_r=0.
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