21. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 30 – May 4, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, economy, jobs, labor market, unemployment, education, taxes, minimum wage, gender, social services, public sector workers)

Here is this week's roundup of labor-market policy research reports: Center for American Progress Women and Obamacare: What’s at Stake for Women if the Supreme Court Strikes Down the Affordable Care ...

22. College Aid Not Keeping Pace with College Costs
(Matching tags: inequality, education, minimum wage, college)

... their educations. (CEPR recently looked at the increase in the financial burden facing minimum-wage workers paying for college.) In fact, unmet need (i.e. expenses after expected family contribution and ...

23. Three New Briefs Confirm It: The Minimum Wage is Way Too Low
(Matching tags: health care, education, minimum wage, age)

In the past three weeks, CEPR has released three short issue briefs on the minimum wage, all demonstrating in various ways that the current level is too low. In the first, CEPR Senior Economist John Schmitt ...

24. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 26 – 30, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, jobs, housing, labor market, medicare, taxes, minimum wage, budget, medicaid)

... Appreciation” John Griffith and Jordan Eizenga Center For Economic and Policy Research Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage John Schmitt and Marie-Eve Augier Center on Budget ...

25. Low-Wage Latino Workers
(Matching tags: workers, minimum wage, Latinos)

For the past few weeks, CEPR has been beating the federal minimum wage drum with a series of issue briefs. In the latest brief, we describe how the increases in age and education of the low-wage workforce ...

26. Issue Brief Finds Low-wage Workers Are Older and Better Educated than Ever
(Matching tags: workers, minimum wage, age)

Relative to any of the most common benchmarks – the cost of living, the wages of the average worker, or average productivity levels – the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is well below its ...

27. Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: health care, education, minimum wage)

The current value of the federal minimum wage — $7.25 per hour — is often compared to the cost of living, the average wage in the economy, or the productivity of the average worker. By all of these benchmarks, ...

28. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 12-16, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, labor market, inequality, minimum wage)

... Poorest People Douglas Rice and Barbara Sar National Employment Law Project Testimony of Tsedeye Gebreselassie on A-2708:  Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers before the New Jersey Assembly Labor ...

29. Mitt Romney: the Candidate of Change?
(Matching tags: health care, Obama, election 2012, romney, minimum wage)

... 2012, but with a somewhat different meaning. Last month, Governor Romney told reporters that he favored indexing the minimum wage to the rate of inflation, which would mean that it would automatically ...

30. CEPR News February 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, inequality, Haiti, work sharing, paid family leave, minimum wage, Greece, private equity)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Greece Two days after the Greek government and European authorities announced a new €130 billion bail-out ...

31. Low-Wage Lessons
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, wages, minimum wage)

As I write in a new CEPR briefing paper (pdf), the United States leads the wealthy world in the share of its workforce in low-wage jobs. According to the commonly used international definition of low-wage ...

32. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 30 - February 3, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, retirement, Social Security, minimum wage, China, austerity, safety net)

... of raising Illinois’ minimum wage: An increase would help working families and the state economy Doug Hall and Mary Gable Jobs in the U.S. auto parts industry are at risk due to subsidized and unfairly ...