used or can be used to increase economic self-sufficiency by increasing earnings, including mandating higher wages … place in the United States, including minimum and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, wage subsidies, and school …-to-work programs. Finally, it considers alternative policies that have recently been proposed. -- Minimum wages ; living wages ; earned …

heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these … evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a tradeoff of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that …