The Rise of the Minimum Wage

The IMF and the World Bank have done systematic studies of this type of growth. They typically apply it to developing economies to try to get them in line with their lending standards. But you apply it to the US and if it's a similar conclusion, our economy would be stronger if we weren't so hell bent on the market leaving so many people behind. Economic research has told us through historical retrospectives that one of the most effective means of fighting income inequality is in fact unionization.