“A Dime A Day: The Impact of the Miller/Harkin Minimum Wage Proposal on the Price of Food” finds that a proposal pending in U.S. Congress to raise the minimum wage would increase retail food prices for American consumers by at most 10 cents a day, while helping nearly 8 million food workers and 21 million workers in other industries.See media coverage of the report:
And blog posts about the report:
What Can You Get for a Dime a Day? A Lot, Actually. by Saru Jayaraman and Joann Lo on multiple sites
A Dime a Day Keeps Poverty Away on Unionosity.com
A Dime a Day for Food Worker Justice by Amy Traub on Demos’s weblog