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Getting the Market Right for Working Families

Bruce Katz
Bruce Katz Founding Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab - Drexel University

June 14, 2005

In testimony before the Philadelphia City Council, Bruce Katz outlines the conclusions and policy prescriptions of The Price Is Wrong report, which describes market distortions—from banking and home and auto insurance costs to utility prices—that disproportionately affect low-wage households in the city.