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Do higher wages kill jobs? (with Mayor Eric Garcetti and Alan Krueger)
Trickle-downers always argue that raising the minimum wage inevitably kills jobs. But the empirical evidence from Seattle, Los Angeles, and elsewhere prove otherwise. Experts, including Mayor Garcetti of LA, discuss how our economic understanding has changed, and why changing the public perception around the minimum wage has been so difficult.
Eric Garcetti: Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013. Former member of the LA City Council, serving as council president from 2006 to 2012.
Twitter: @ericgarcetti
Alan Krueger: Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton. Former Chairman…
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