To Reduce Racial Inequality, Raise the Minimum Wage

To Reduce Racial Inequality, Raise the Minimum Wage: In a New York Times Op-Ed, Professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux share results from their new research. The findings show that Congress’s decision in 1966 to both raise the minimum wage and expand it to workers in previously unprotected industries led to a significant drop in earnings inequality between Black and white Americans. Read the op-ed

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