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...case for increasing the minimum is being built on a group of studies, the most prominent of which is by Princeton economists David Card and Alan Krueger. The two surveyed employment patterns in fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania cities after the Garden State raised its minimum wage to $5.05, vs. $4.25 for Pennsylvania. Economic theory says that increased labor costs should have forced New Jersey employers to cut jobs or that employers in Pennsylvania should have lifted wages to keep workers from hopping across the river for a raise. But the study found no such evidence...
Opponents, both political and academic, have criticized the Card-Krueger study's methodology. But the Administration knows well that working-class voters are behind a raise: 10 states have already lifted their minimum wage above the national mandate, and 30 cities are considering "living wage" increases...
Other fellows are Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Robert R. Krueger, Elizabeth McHenry, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Sidney N. Klaus, Maria Diedrich, Rebecca Carroll, Barry Hallen, Mary Hamer, Roger R. House, Shelly Leanne, Alessandra Lorini, Jill Netchinsky-Toussaint, Stephan Palmie, Barbara L. Solow, Therese Steffen and Patricia Sullivan...
Daniel Edrich Krueger...
Theirs was a minority view in the heavily conservative and Republican senate. Reed was welcomed at a lunch at the estate of a conservative and politically active couple, Ortwin and Pat Krueger. Neither is a member of the Christian Coalition yet, but they love politics and professed to like the Coalition's approach. So with an eye toward helping the Coalition raise money, they happily played host to 10 current and potential contributors at their huge, old house, overlooking a pool, a tennis court and 56 rural hectares. George Fellendorf, a semiretired teacher of the deaf who is the state...