Employees take on the Wal-Mart wage increase
Employees take on the Wal-Mart wage increase
- February 19, 2015
- David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is featured on The Marketplace Feb. 19, 2015
From The Marketplace:
For many Wal-Mart workers who live around the federal poverty line – about $12,000
for a single person – that increase is likely to provide only some solace. “It’s
moving from the bottom to … a shade above the bottom,” says David Neumark, who directs
the Center for Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine.
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