Rising Health Costs No Excuse For Wage Dip
April 18, 2006
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The Bush Administration’s Council of Economic Advisors has argued that rising health insurance costs have squeezed workers wages across the income scale. As a practical matter, however, health insurance costs cannot explain the recent decline in wages for the lowest-paid workers because so few of them are covered by health insurance. Read the data from the The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) here.
