Heated rhetoric aside, what effect has increased Seattle minimum wage had?
Heated rhetoric aside, what effect has increased Seattle minimum wage had?
- July 26, 2016
- David Neumark, economics professor, in The Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo! News and Business Insider, July 26, 2016
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Increasing the minimum wage benefits some while harming others, David Neumark, a professor of economics at the University of California Irvine who has spoken against a $15 minimum wage, tells the Monitor. The small scale of the increases thus far likely accounts for the result of only small effects, he says.
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