Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Relationship between Minimum Wage, Population Change, and Income Inequality in Rural America

The research problem statement should use a minimum of two scholarly, peer-reviewed resources to help establish the research problem as a legitimate problem (gap) within the research topic. Set it up by establishing what the ideal would be in your research topic and what the reality actually is, to allow the reader to see the gap between the two. Follow that by establishing what your research project is, and what it would do to help bridge that gap. 1-2 pages
Construct a 750-1,000 word (3-4 pages properly formatted) literature review using the resources you have found over the past few units (you may use the resources briefly discussed in your Introduction if you wish).
References peer-reviewed 
Engelhardt, G. V., & Purcell, P. J. (2021). 
The minimum wage and annual earnings 
inequality. Economics Letters, 207.
Winkelried, D., & Escobar, B. (2022). Declining inequality in Latin America? Robustness checks for 
Peru. The Journal of Economic Inequality, 20(1), 223–243
Butler, J., Wildermuth, G. A., Thiede, B. C., & Brown, D. L. (2020). 
Population Change and Income 
Inequality in Rural America. Population Research and Policy Review : In Cooperation with the 
Southern Demographic Association (SDA), 39(5), 889–911.