Coupling a Federal Minimum Wage Hike with Public Investments to Make Work Pay and Reduce Poverty
For more than a century, advocates have promoted minimum wage laws to protect workers and their families from poverty. Opponents counter that the policy has, at best, small poverty-reducing effects. We summarize the evidence and describe three factors that might dampen the policy’s effects on povert...
Main Authors: | Jennifer Romich, Heather D. Hill |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2018-02-01
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Series: | RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.02 |
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