Tag: increase minimum wage

Explore the issue of inequality in the United States and its impact on the recent election. Discover possible solutions and encouraging signs of progress especially within washington's tax laws.

All told, research indicates that increasing the minimum wage has no impact on employment or hours, does not lead to labor substitution (replacing "low skilled" workers with "high skilled" workers) and has a small impact on business operating costs and consumer prices while decreasing turnover, increasing productivity and lifting low wage workers out of poverty.