Articles by Dean Baker
A World With a $24 Minimum Wage
Dean Baker · If worker pay had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year today.
If Worker Pay Had Kept Pace With Productivity Gains Since 1968, Today's Minimum Wage Would Be $24 an Hour
Dean Baker · In such a world, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year in the United States.
Convincing the Young to Blame the Old, Not the Rich
Dean Baker · The Washington Post‘s Catherine Rampell devoted a column (12/24/15) to a popular Washington pastime: trying to get young people angry at their parents and grandparents so that they are not bothered by the enormous upward redistribution...