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...After studying the economic effects of the minimum wage since the early 1990?, David Neumark, a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, says he began researching the living wage two and a half years...
...Neumark says he found in his study of all U.S. municipalities that have a mandatory wage floor, that for a hypothetical 50 percent increase in a living wage, wages as a whole go up three and a half percent, on average. This finding applies to low-wage workers as a whole in cities that adopt living wages, many of whom are not actually affected...
...However, Neumark said he found that employment levels drop seven percent for every corresponding 50 percent increase in the living wage, perhaps establishing that low wage workers may actually lose jobs if their wages become too expensive for the employer...
...York City (History and Literature); Nancy L. Caroline of 83 Brattle St. and Newton Center (Social Relations); S. Jean Herriot, of Moors Hall and Palo Alto, Calif, (History); Mary Lou Mackey, of 24 Garden St. and Indianapolis Ind. (English); Patricia A. Munse of Comstock Hall and Urbann, * (Biology); Elisabeth Neumark, of * House and Jamaica, N.Y. (Mathematics); and Susan N. Rosenthal, of Moors Hall and Tenafly, N.J. (Chemistry...
Next morning, the Scheveningen concert was the talk of The Netherlands. Indignant Dutch critics accused Conductor Ignaz Neumark and his 86 state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby...