Minimum wage rhetoric doesn't match reality (Opinion)
Minimum wage rhetoric doesn't match reality (Opinion)
- February 28, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured in US News and World Report February 28, 2014
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From US News and World:
Proponents of a higher minimum wage point to a handful of studies that find no jobs
effect to make their case. And it’s true, these studies do exist – but they’re in
the extreme minority. Two economists from the Federal Reserve Board and the University
of California, Irvine took the time to read all of the most credible research on the
minimum wage from the past 20 years, and found an overwhelming 85 percent of it pointed
to a decline in employment.
For the full story, please visit http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/letters-to-the-editor/2014/02/27/min....
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