The morality of unemployment
The morality of unemployment
- April 5, 2016
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, on minimum wage in The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2016
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From the WSJ:
About half of American families in poverty have no workers, as University of California,
Irvine economist David Neumark points out. Many might take a $9 an hour job, except
now that’s illegal, which won’t help “take care of their kids.”
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