The University of Minnesota Medical School is getting a federal grant for what researchers term a first-of-its-kind study on the effect of Minneapolis’s new minimum wage ordinance on the health of low-income workers. Assistant Professor Caitlin Caspi says there is “plenty of scientific evidence to suggest that income, and minimum wage in particular, might be a really important social determinant of health.” The five-year study will analyze the health and financial behavior of a number of low-wage workers in Minnesota, comparing outcomes to workers in a matched control-group in Raleigh, North Carolina — where there is no minimum wage increase.