December 2005
Washingon, D.C.–A new study on the outcome of Santa Fe’s Living Wage Ordinance commissioned by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) exposes the negative economic consequences resulting from June 2004’s wage hike. The city’s least-educated adults, those the increase was intended to help, bore the brunt of the wage hike’s ill-effects.
“The results here unquestionably show a decline in labor market opportunities for less-educated adults,” said […]