Feb 18: Community Forum Meeting on the Minimum Wage

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A Public Forum

Is It Time to Raise

the Minimum Wage?

 

Is it possible to live on the income from a minimum-wage job?

Would raising the minimum wage increase unemployment?

What bills have been introduced in the Indiana Legislature and the US Congress to raise the minimum wage? 

7 pm, Tuesday, February 18, 2014

LaSalle Branch Library (3232 Ardmore Trail)

 

Discussion will follow presentations by

 

LaTasha Bosse, Coordinator of the REAL Services Family Development Program, which assists low-income families to reach financial self-sufficiency.

 

Marty Wolfson, a University of Notre Dame economist and the Director of the Higgins Labor Studies Program 

 

 

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