David Neumark

University of California, Irvine

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Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, where he studies the effects of living wage laws and directs its Center for Economics and Public Policy

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Fast food workers are back on the streets in 100 cities today. Walmart saw strikes on Black Friday.

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