[PEN-L:359] Re: Employment Policy Inst.??

1998-07-29 Thread michael perelman
The Employment Policy Institute gets its funding from the fast food industry. It was implicated in the Newt Gingrich case -- not of anything criminal on its part. They have been funding work to discredit the Card/Krueger research on the minimum wage. I know that the fast food industry was very

[PEN-L:358] Employment Policy Inst.??

1998-07-29 Thread DOUG ORR
Washington State has an initiative on the Nov. ballot to raise the Min. Wage to $7.50 per hour in 2000, and index it to the CPI. As expected, the business community has already started their propaganda war against it. The first salvo cites a study by the Employment Policy Institute. I

Re: Employment policy

1994-03-14 Thread Jim Devine
On Sun, 13 Mar 1994 23:34:45 -0800 JKC said: > . . . I get the feeling that >the general view from the left, center and the right seems to indicate that >monetary policy is not all that effective as an employment policy. > >I have not done a lot of review on the efficacy of mone

Re: Employment policy

1994-03-14 Thread Jim Devine
On Sun, 13 Mar 1994 23:34:45 -0800 JKC said: > . . . I get the feeling that >the general view from the left, center and the right seems to indicate that >monetary policy is not all that effective as an employment policy. > >I have not done a lot of review on the efficacy of mone