On July 1, 2020, the minimum wage in the District of Columbia will be $15 per hour. Our recently published study in the Economic Development Quarterly, finds that a $15 minimum wage will produce significant income gains for most of the...
With Uber and other ridesharing services becoming a common transit option for some DC residents, we wanted to get a sense of when someone might substitute an Uber trip for a Metrorail trip. To do this, we plotted data on travel time and cost,...
Around 829,000 people work in D.C. (within the city-proper), and about 26 percent of them are immigrants. Today, the ...
Nearly 800,000 people work in the District of Columbia, yet only about 30 percent of the District’s workers live in the city-proper. Workers in low-wage jobs are more likely to live in the city than those in middle- and high-wage jobs....
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