1. CEPR News, March 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, retirement, inequality, paid sick days, Haiti, Social Security, medicare, Honduras, minimum wage, financial transactions tax)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Venezuela CEPR marked the March 5th death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez with op-eds, blog posts and ...

2. CEPR News February 2013
(Matching tags: Haiti, medicare, minimum wage, FTT, ecuador, climate change, FMLA, work hours)

The newsletter highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the Minimum Wage President Obama's call for an increase in the minimum wage during his State of the Union ...

3. Benchmarking the Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: inequality, minimum wage, cost of living)

In his State of the Union address, President Obama heartened many progressives with a call for raising the minimum wage to $9.00 (from its current $7.25), and then pegging its value to increases in ...

4. Studying the Studies on the Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, minimum wage)

... research from the last 20 years” demonstrates that the minimum wage “reduces opportunities for the least-skilled jobseekers.” In making that claim, the Employment Policies Institute cites research published ...

5. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 9 – 22, 2013
(Matching tags: immigration, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, taxes, minimum wage, discrimination, small businesses, income taxes, in-home care)

... Badgett, Crosby Burns, Nan D. Hunter, Jeff Krehely, Christy Mallory, and Brad Sears Center for Economic and Policy Research Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment? John ...

6. Tax Credit Expansions Don't Make Up for the Lower Minimum Wage Increase Proposed by President Obama
(Matching tags: inequality, taxes, minimum wage, low-wage work, pverty, tax credits)

The $9 minimum wage proposed in the SOTU is less than the $9.50 that Obama proposed during his first campaign. For a full-time worker, that's about $1,000 less per year. And, as Tim Noah has noted, if ...

7. Raising Minimum Wage to $9 Not Enough to Ensure that Families with Fulltime Workers Live Above Poverty Line
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, minimum wage, supplemental poverty measure)

According to the White House, the President’s proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour by the end of 2015 will ensure that “no one who works fulltime should have to raise their family in poverty.” ...

8. CEPR News January 2013
(Matching tags: imf, venezuela, inequality, unemployment, Haiti, Social Security, unions, medicare, minimum wage, Greece, eurozone)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more in January. CEPR on Haiti Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch blogger and CEPR International Research Associate ...

9. Having Your Minimum Wage and EITC, Too
(Matching tags: minimum wage, employment, EITC)

Economic commentator Evan Soltas really missed the boat in his most recent Bloomberg column on the minimum wage. He gets some of the economics right —the best empirical evidence on the minimum wage, he ...

10. Sae-A’s “Risky” Play in Haiti
(Matching tags: usaid, iadb, minimum wage, caracol)

As both Clintons and a coterie of celebrities and foreign investors flew into northern Haiti yesterday, some took the opportunity to praise Sae-A, the giant Korean garment manufacturer that opened a factory ...