A New Way to Think About the Minimum Wage

A New Way to Think About the Minimum Wage: How high could policymakers set a national minimum wage?

In partnership with the Roosevelt Institute and Oklahoma Policy Institute, Economic Policy Institute hosted this webinar that shares a new, evidence-backed framework for raising the federal minimum wage. 

The webinar included Roosevelt Institute Director of Worker Power and Economic Security Patrick Oakford, Economic Policy Institute Senior Economist Ben Zipperer, Oklahoma Policy Institute’s Carly Putnam, and was hosted by Economic Policy Institute Executive Vice President Naomi Walker.

Oklahoma Policy Institute is part of EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network, or EARN, which is a network of close to 60 state-focused research, policy, and advocacy organizations in 43 states + DC.

Originally held Thursday, May 21, 2026.

Learn more:

• Federal Employment Standards as the Foundation of Economic Security: Revisiting Minimum Wage, Just Cause, and Tools to Combat Wage Theft by Patrick Oakford 

• Setting high standards for a federal minimum wage by Ben Zipperer

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  A new way to think about the minimum wage

   

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