Ben Zipperer is a Research Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His research focuses on the minimum wage and other labor standards, measuring how specific labor market policies affect the income distribution, productivity, and employment.
Economists care a great deal about the minimum wage because it is a policy prescription that increasingly affects a large portion of the workforce and because it is a clear case of govern...
Unusually warm weather over much of the United States helped boost employment growth in December as the U.S. economy added 292,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages...
