'Living wage' laws create both winners and losers
'Living wage' laws create both winners and losers
- July 16, 2013
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured on NPR July 16, 2013
From NPR:
Wal-Mart's long-standing plans to come to Washington, D.C., are now up in the air.
The city council passed a living wage law that would require the world's largest retailer
to pay $12.50 an hour, more than the city's current $8.25 minimum wage. To learn more
about living wage bills throughout the country, Audie Cornish speaks to David Neumark,
professor of economics and director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy
at the University of California, Irvine.
Full transcript unavailable. Audio link available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=202729376.
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