Word: neumark
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...living wage is not a panacea for all the problems facing low-wage workers, Neumark says...
...Thus, Neumark is an advocate of the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit, a wage subsidy, as the best way to benefit lowest-wage workers. Through the Earned Income Tax Credit, adults who are working but not making a sufficient amount to sustain their families are given supplementary income from the government...
...xcept for the extreme right, this has a very wide base of support,?Neumark says...
...Neumark says unions would benefit from adopting a living wage, because a mandatory wage floor renders outsourcing?ontracting jobs to a private firm that often pays its workers less? less attractive option. Outsourcing is traditionally a threat to unions because it results in a loss of union jobs. But if employers were required to pay a wage near the union wage anyway, Neumark says, the impetus to outsource would greatly lessen...
...living wage] strengthens the union? hand in negotiations,?Neumark says...