David Neumark: Low-income family and low-wage worker are related 'very loosely'
David Neumark: Low-income family and low-wage worker are related 'very loosely'
- March 13, 2014
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured on KUOW.org March 13, 2014
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From KUOW.org:
Marcie Sillman talks with economist David Neumark at the University of California,
Irvine, about what key issues Seattle needs to address before raising its minimum
wage. Neumark argued that being a low-wage worker and being in a low-income family
are related loosely. "We know from the data that most of the benefits of a wage increase
like this don't go to poor families," he explained. "That's simply because there's
a lot of low-wage workers and non-poor families and even low-income families. And
a lot of poor families are poor because nobody works."
Audio link available at http://kuow.org/post/david-neumark-low-income-family-and-low-wage-worker....
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