Editorial: Raising minimum wage wrong solution for income inequality
Editorial: Raising minimum wage wrong solution for income inequality
- January 10, 2016
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is featured in the Las Vegas Review-Journal Jan. 10, 2016
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
David Neumark a professor of economics and director of the Center for Economics and
Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, …. "Setting a higher minimum
wage seems like a natural way to help lift families out of poverty," Neumark writes.
"However, minimum wages target individual workers with low wages, rather than families
with low incomes."
For the full story, please visit http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-raising-minimum-wage-wrong-solution-income-inequality.
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