Free-lunch debate reignites as Obama touts higher minimum wage

Free-lunch debate reignites as Obama touts higher minimum wage
- January 29, 2014
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is quoted by Bloomberg January 29, 2014
From Bloomberg:
The debate over President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise the minimum wage turns
on the credibility of an economic tenet popularized by Milton Friedman: “There’s no
such thing as a free lunch.”…Work from Krueger and Dube has been answered by David
Neumark, an economist at the University of California, Irvine, and Federal Reserve
economist William Wascher. The evidence shows that increasing the minimum wage hurts
low-paid workers, Neumark said. The trade-offs, including higher prices by companies
trying to make up the added expense, aren’t worth the benefits, he said. “The most
honest folks acknowledge there is some job loss, but suggest that other potential
benefits more than compensate for this.”
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