Can We Give America a Raise?: The Low-Wage Puzzle. Christopher Jencks.
by Jencks, Christopher; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 47Business. Publisher: American Prospect, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Economic development | Income distribution | Pay equity | Wages | Working poorDDC classification: 050 Summary: The author comments on what lies behind generating low-wage workers in America. He claims that while "economic growth is almost always a necessary condition for improving the lives of those in the bottom half of the income distribution, America's experience over the past generation shows that growth alone is not sufficient." (AMERICAN PROSPECT)| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Can We Give America a Raise?: The Low-Wage Puzzle, Jan. 2004; pp. 34-37.
The author comments on what lies behind generating low-wage workers in America. He claims that while "economic growth is almost always a necessary condition for improving the lives of those in the bottom half of the income distribution, America's experience over the past generation shows that growth alone is not sufficient." (AMERICAN PROSPECT)
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