Increasing Health Costs Can't Explain Earnings Dip for Low-Wage Workers

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Increasing Health Costs Can't Explain Earnings Dip for Low-Wage Workers
Economic Policy Institute

Apr. 13, 2006

Excerpt: President Bush'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.

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