Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that … to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, its tax …

Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that … to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, the tax …

well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at … risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress. …

the current environment of stagnating wages, increasing income instability, and rising adult poverty. The War on Poverty … has succeeded in reducing the poverty rate for elderly Americans from 30 percent to 10.5 percent over the past three ….1 percent twenty-five years ago. With the overall growth in the number of persons in poverty in the United States from 25 …

although the poverty rate for elderly Americans has declined over the past three decades, the total number of persons in … poverty has grown and the number of poor nonelderly adults in poverty has nearly doubled since 1970. The authors argue for a … itself is an ideal solution to the wage poverty problem, but the two programs complement one another. What makes the two fit …

Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …