Is raising the minimum wage really the best policy?
Is raising the minimum wage really the best policy?
- May 22, 2015
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is quoted by KCRW May 22, 2015
From KCRW:
Is it possible that raising the minimum wage isn’t actually the best path toward helping
low-income workers? KCRW talked to David Neumark, Economics Professor and Director
at the Center for Economics & Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine.
Neumark said that it isn’t the minimum wage that will help the close the income inequality
gap, but more reliance on the Earned Income Tax Credit.
For the full story, please visit http://blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2015/05/is-raising-the-minimum-wage-really-the-best-policy.
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