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

[michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 active in the 226 election in
California.

A union person from Washington State contacted me about this earlier.  He was more
knowledgeable than I am.

DOUG ORR wrote:

> 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 remember a
> discussion a while back about this group.  Something about the data they
> used being questionable.  Also that the funding of the group was from
> the ultra right.  I will need to write a response in the next few days,
> so any info you can give would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Orr
> dorr@xxxxxxx



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Michael Perelman
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