Another View: Let's target tax credit instead of wage hike
Another View: Let's target tax credit instead of wage hike
- January 9, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured in the Des Moines Register and Connecticut Post January 9, 2014
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From the Des Moines Register:
In a 2008 review of the research on minimum wages and poverty, economists from the
University of California, Irvine and the Federal Reserve demonstrated that almost
all studies find that a higher minimum wage has either no effect on poverty or even
increases it.
For the full story, please visit http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20140110/OPINION01/301100078/An....
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