ArticleThe Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF2018
Coupling a Federal Minimum Wage Hike with Public Investments to Make Work Pay and Reduce Poverty.
Article in The Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences : RSF, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Experiences of Parents Earning Low Wages in Raleigh, North Carolina: Compounding Effects of Caretaker Responsibility, Piecemeal Resources, and Lack of Economic Opportunities.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2024Article
- Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in the association between higher state minimum wages and health and mental well-being in US adults with low educational attainment.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- How Do Employers Belonging to Marginalized Communities Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? The Case of Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Seattle.Economic development quarterly · 2022Article
- Household economic instability: Constructs, measurement, and implications.Children and youth services review · 2020Article
- The Initial Nonprofit Exposure and Response to Seattle's Minimum Wage Ordinance.The Social service review · 2020Article
- How Will Higher Minimum Wages Affect Family Life and Children's Well-Being?Child development perspectives · 2018Article
- Poverty, Policy, and Mental Health Inequities: Evidence, Challenges, and Opportunities.Harvard review of psychiatryReview
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Abstract
For more than a century, advocates have promoted minimum wage laws to protect workers and their families from poverty. Opponents counter that the policy has, at best, small poverty-reducing effects. We summarize the evidence and describe three factors that might dampen the policy's effects on poverty: imperfect targeting, heterogeneous labor market effects, and interactions with income support programs. To boost the poverty-reducing effects of the minimum wage, we propose increasing the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour and temporarily expanding an existing employer tax credit. This is a cost-saving proposal because it relies on regulation and creates no new administrative functions. We recommend using those savings to "make work pay" and improve upward mobility for low-income workers through lower marginal tax rates.
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