Stephanie Luce
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Stephanie Luce is an Associate Professor at the Murphy Institute, City University of New York. She is a leading expert on living wages and the author of Fighting for a Living Wage and co-author of two other books on living wages and minimum wages. Professor Luce worked as an economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and a Congressional Commission on Agricultural Workers before earning her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. She has also worked as a researcher at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and the Political Economy Research Institute.

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Crying Wolf Over Higher Wages in a Time of Need

Posted December 9, 2010 | 13:52:39 (EST)

For more than 100 years, we've heard opponents "Cry Wolf" when governments tried to establish living wage or minimum wage laws, threatening higher unemployment and inflation. Introductory economic textbooks warn of just that. But fortunately economic analysis has advanced beyond the introductory level. More economists are testing theories once taken...

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