Cutting the basic wage to spur jobs

Cutting the basic wage to spur jobs
- March 10, 2010
- David Neumark, economist, is featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution March 9, 2010
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From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Last year, David Neumark, a well-known labor economist at the University of California-Irvine, warned prophetically that allowing the third of three planned wage increases to occur in the midst of the recession could cost us an additional 300,000 jobs.
For the full story, please visit http://www.aei.org/article/101766.
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