Gap recently announced that it plans to raise the minimum wage for its US workforce to $9 an hour in June 2014 and $10 an hour by June 2015. The company says the raise will affect 65,000 workers in the United States. Maureen Conway briefly comments on this announcement in this NPR Marketplace interview with Margarita Noriega. The interview also features author and MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Zeynep Ton, who spoke at a recent Working in America book talk on The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Workers to Lower Costs and Boost Profits.
