Minimum wage boost will hit poor areas hardest
Minimum wage boost will hit poor areas hardest
- March 30, 2016
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is quoted in the Orange County Register March 30, 2016
From the OC Register:
David Neumark, a UC Irvine economics professor, predicted that the climb to a $15
minimum wage could reduce employment of minimum wage workers by at least 5 percent
to 10 percent. “I would go so far as to call this [minimum wage proposal] reckless,”
he told the Associated Press on Monday.
For the full story, please visit http://www.ocregister.com/articles/wage-710134-minimum-percent.html.
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