press release Multi State Employer Survey Finds Robust Demand For Welfare Recipients That Could Disappear In Downturn Jan 25, 2001
Report Increasing the Minimum Wage: California’s Winners and Losers By Thomas E. MaCurdy, Margaret O’Brien-Strain May 1, 2000 As a policy tool, minimum wage increases rely heavily on two assumptions: that such increases help the poor and impose little public or social cost. In Increasing the Minimum Wage: California’s Winners and Losers, Margaret O’Brien-Strain and Thomas MaCurdy test both assumptions by modeling the effects of the 1996 federal increase from $4.25 to $5.15 per hour. Noting that low-income families receive a relatively small portion of the additional earnings and that higher labor costs put upward pressure on the prices of products these families buy, the authors conclude that minimum wage increases do not help poor families as much as more targeted policy options.
press release Increasing The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Benefit California’s Poor And May Even Cost Them, Study Finds Apr 28, 2000
Occasional Paper, Report Congressional Testimony on Minimum Wage By Joanne Spetz Oct 19, 1999 Transcript of testimony presented before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Work Force, October 1999.
