UN, Reno economist refutes conventional wisdom about minimum-wage earners
Monday, June 6, 2011 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
In one of the most in-depth studies to date of adults who earn minimum wage, University of Nevada, Reno economist Bradley R. Schiller answers the question that many policymakers have been asking for years: Do a large number of families depend on the income from minimum-wage jobs? The answer, according to Schiller's research, is an emphatic "No."