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Acknowledgments I would like to thank Annette Bernhardt, Nathan Newrnan, Paul Sonn, Kate Aubin and Roslyn Powell of the Brennan Center for Justice for invaluable editorial assistance. I would also like to thank Stephanie Luce and Jen Kern for sharing their extensive knowledge about cities and counties with liv- ing wage laws, and for their insightful comments on earlier drafts. I am grateful to the University of California lnstitute for Labor and Employment for generous funding and support of this project. Finally, many thanks to the administrators and policymakers in the participating local governments whose observations and studies of their living wage programs provided the basis for this report. About the Author The author graduated from the UCLA School of Law with a concentration in the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. He is a Seaff Attorney and Skadden Fellow with the Legal Aid Sociery in New York Ciry. The Brennan Center's Economic JusticeProject Good jobs are essential to the long-term viability of o�r communities and our economy. The Brennan Center's Economic Justice Project works with coalitions of stakeholders to create regional solutions to �rr�l}Ir ui a of job r�tialir}- and economic competitiveness. We also work at a broader level to help rebuild the core job and safery-net standards that have been dismantled over the past three decades. We sup- port these efforts to combat growing inequality with a unique combination of research, legal assis- tance, and policy analysis. Brennan Center for Justice 161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor New York, New York 10013 212 998 6730 faY 212 995 4550 For more information, contact Paul Sonn at paul.sonn@nyu.edu A copy of the complete report is available on the Brennan Center's website at http://www.brennancenter.org