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Employment Policy Group Urges California Legislators to Consider Unintended Consequences of Wage Hike: New Analysis Finds Proponents Using Creative Economics Instead of Fact
March 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) denounced California’s proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage and criticized proponents’ use of creative economics to defend the bill. Introduced by Assemblyman Alejo (D-Watsonville) and co-sponsored by Assemblyman Allen (D-Santa Rosa), the bill would increase California’s minimum wage from $8.00 an hour to $8.50 an hour and index the wage to inflation thereafter. The legislation (AB 10) being considered tomorrow… -
Weak Summer Job Market Predicted As Twelve States Consider Wage Hikes: Employment Policies Institute Points To New Research Bolstering Consensus That Minimum Wage Hikes Decrease Teen Employment
March 2011 · ·
As experts predict a weak summer job market for teens, twelve states are considering ill-conceived policies that have serious unintended consequences for teens searching for work this summer. According to outplacement consultancy firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.’s summer 2011 employment outlook, little improvement is expected from last year when the country experienced the lowest level of teen summer hiring since 1949. And according to an analysis… -
Weak Summer Job Market Predicted As Twelve States Consider Wage Hikes: Employment Policies Institute Points To New Research Bolstering Consensus That Minimum Wage Hikes Decrease Teen Employment
March 2011 · ·
As experts predict a weak summer job market for teens, twelve states are considering ill-conceived policies that have serious unintended consequences for teens searching for work this summer. According to outplacement consultancy firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.’s summer 2011 employment outlook, little improvement is expected from last year when the country experienced the lowest level of teen summer hiring since 1949. And according to an analysis… -
Twelve States Considering Legislation to Raise Or Index Their Minimum Wage: New Research Shows Adult Minimum Wage Earners Aren’t “Just Getting By”
March 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new study by nationally-known economist Dr. Bradley R. Schiller, which largely refutes conventional wisdom about adults earning the minimum wage. This research is particularly relevant now, as twelve states across the country consider further increasing their state minimum wage or indexing it to inflation. Schiller, a professor of economics at the University of Nevada-Reno and author of several bestselling… -
Twelve States Considering Legislation to Raise Or Index Their Minimum Wage: New Research Shows Adult Minimum Wage Earners Aren’t “Just Getting By”
March 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new study by nationally-known economist Dr. Bradley R. Schiller, which largely refutes conventional wisdom about adults earning the minimum wage. This research is particularly relevant now, as twelve states across the country consider further increasing their state minimum wage or indexing it to inflation. Schiller, a professor of economics at the University of Nevada-Reno and author of several bestselling… -
“Raise Maryland” Campaign Uses Discredited Research to Support Wage Mandate Claims: Discredited Sources Include List of 650 “Economists,” Card & Krueger Study
January 2011 · ·
Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) released a new analysis showing that labor-backed Progressive Maryland is using misleading and discredited research in their attempts to raise Maryland’s minimum wage to $10 an hour. On their website, the “Raise Maryland” campaign claims that additional wage mandates will not cause unemployment, pointing to a 1994 study by economists David Card and Alan Krueger and a list of 650 economists…