Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois finance professor Don Fullerton says using revenue from pollution taxes to lessen its regressiveness on low-wage workers is not enough to offset higher commodity prices and shrunken real wages.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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