Raising minimum wage: Next proposal to threaten small businesses
Raising minimum wage: Next proposal to threaten small businesses
- November 25, 2013
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured in Small Business Trends November 25, 2013
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From Small Business Trends:
It’s a cruel irony in that boosting the minimum wage will mean more impoverished
people. As Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland economist Mark Schweitzer and University
of California [Irvine] economist David Neumark have found, businesses often cut poor
workers first when an increase in the minimum wage makes hiring as many workers uneconomical.
Because those workers often have the least long term job potential. As a result, boosting
the minimum wage means poor adults being passed over for jobs and ending up stuck
in poverty.
For the full story, please visit http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/11/raising-the-minimum-wage-obama-proposa....
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