Calls to establish a regionally adjusted federal minimum wage are dangerously misguided

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Calls to establish a regionally adjusted federal minimum wage are dangerously misguided

4 May 2021

We need to raise the federal minimum wage. Its deterioration in value over the past five decades has exacerbated poverty, widened inequality, and lowered wages for the bottom third of wage earners1—despite the fact that these workers typically are older and have more education than their counterparts a generation ago. One misguided critique of the…
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Authors

David Cooper, Lawrence Mishel

Published in
Bulgaria

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