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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2973804" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>from ralph nader radio hour:</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Ben Zipperer</strong> is an economist at the <a href="http://www.epi.org/" target="_blank">Economic Policy Institute</a>. His areas of expertise include the minimum wage, inequality, and low-wage labor markets. Prior to that, Dr. Zipperer was research economist at the <a href="http://equitablegrowth.org/" target="_blank">Washington Center for Equitable Growth</a>. He is a senior research associate at the <a href="http://cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> and a research associate at the <a href="http://irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/" target="_blank">Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics </a>at the University of California, Berkeley.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>The skeptics of minimum wage increases have been consistently shown to be wrong by very careful economic research… minimum wages – at least the kinds typically passed in the United States – tend to do their job. And what I mean by that is they tend to raise the wages of low wage workers and give them higher income; and they do so with very little to no negative costs in terms of employment losses.”</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2973804, member: 56035"] from ralph nader radio hour: [B]Ben Zipperer[/B] is an economist at the [URL='http://www.epi.org/']Economic Policy Institute[/URL]. His areas of expertise include the minimum wage, inequality, and low-wage labor markets. Prior to that, Dr. Zipperer was research economist at the [URL='http://equitablegrowth.org/']Washington Center for Equitable Growth[/URL]. He is a senior research associate at the [URL='http://cepr.net/']Center for Economic and Policy Research[/URL] and a research associate at the [URL='http://irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/']Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics [/URL]at the University of California, Berkeley. [SIZE=4][B]The skeptics of minimum wage increases have been consistently shown to be wrong by very careful economic research… minimum wages – at least the kinds typically passed in the United States – tend to do their job. And what I mean by that is they tend to raise the wages of low wage workers and give them higher income; and they do so with very little to no negative costs in terms of employment losses.”[/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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