July 10, 2019
The estimated impact of a federal minimum wage increase to $10, $12, or $15 will create a range of tradeoffs between jobs and earnings.
The estimated impact of a federal minimum wage increase to $10, $12, or $15 will create a range of tradeoffs between jobs and earnings.
While it is easy for us to see when the minimum wage goes up, the impact on low wage workers' non-wage compensation is much less evident.
Economists on one side of the minimum wage debate just got some extra ammunition from the results of a University of Washington study.