
Jeanette Wicks-Lim
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About Jeanette
Wicks-Lim specializes in labor economics. Her research focuses on low-wage workers in the U.S. economy and has an overlapping interest in the political economy of race. Her publications include A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (co-authored 2008); and the studies “Improving Population Health by Reducing Poverty: New York’s Earned Income Tax Credit” (2015); “An Assessment of the Fiscal Impact of the Proposed Sonoma County Living Wage Ordinance;” (2014); and “A Stimulus for Affirmative Action” (2013). She also writes regularly for Dollars & Sense magazine.
Contributions
Why Fast Food Employers Can Adjust to a $15 Minimum Wage without Shedding Jobs
No Jargon Podcast
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Publications
Finds that investments in clean energy technology will create more job opportunities – especially for low-income workers – than equivalent spending on fossil fuels, across all levels of education, creating new "pathways out of poverty" and raising the standard of living for low-income workers employed in clean energy manufacturing jobs.
Assesses the fiscal impact of the County of Sonoma, California’s adoption of a living-wage ordinance, indicating that the total impact of a $15.00 living wage would have a small impact on Sonoma County’s fiscal budget, in the range of 0.4 percent to 0.9 percent of the total.