Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?*
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Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will a $9.50 Federal Minimum Wage Really Help the Working Poor?
Using data drawn from the March Current Population Survey, we find that state and federal minimum wage increases between 2003 and 2007 had no effect on state poverty rates. When we then simulate the effects of a proposed federal minimum wage increase from $7.25 to $9.50 per hour, we find that such an increase will be even more poorly targeted to the working poor than was the last federal increa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Record
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0013-0249
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00432.x