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Raising the National Minimum Wage
Sources of information about the federal minimum wage, arguments both for and against raising it, research studies, news, politics, and the wage in other countries.
http://www.raiseminwage.org/
Ignoring Economics
An article arguing that the minimum wage is partly responsible for unemployment among not only African-American youth but also violent young French Muslims as well.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentar...
The Case Against a Higher Minimum Wage
From the Joint Economic Committee in Congress, a compilation of links to 1995-1996 reports against the minimum wage increase being considered at that time.
http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/min...
The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth
From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.html
The Just Income Coalition - Why Increase the Minimum Wage?
Though undated and about the Canadian minimum wage, a clear description of minimum wage issues.
http://www.just-income.ca/facts/why-increa...
Justice and Charity in Wages
This article gives a Roman Catholic perspective on the minimum wage debate.
http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/articl...
SuperSizeMyPay Canada
A campaign to end the Canadian training wage, raise the minimum wage to $12/hour, and win workers the respect they deserve.
http://www.supersizemypay.net
The Minimum Wage and Its Effects on Small Business
An economist's testimony to a House of Representatives subcommittee on why the federal minimum wage should be raised.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatu...
The Minimum Wage Increase: A Working Woman's Issue
From the Economic Policy Institute, an analysis of how a minimum wage increase would help working women and reduce the gender gap in wages.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuebri...
Minimum Wage
Provides brief history of the minimum wage, its adjusted value over decades, and current efforts to increase it. Includes resources, reports, relevant legislation, and policy analysis. From the Coalition on Human Needs.
http://www.chn.org/dia/organizations/chn/i...
Minimum Wage Issue Guide
Economic Policy Institute guide on the benefits of the minimum wage and effects of an increase, FAQ, and database of related news articles.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuegui...
Livable Wage Legislation
From Vermont's livable wage campaign, lots of information about the economics and politics of raising the state's minimum wage.
http://www.vtlivablewage.org/legislation.h...
Minimum Wage and Fairness
Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=674
Minimum Wage Employers Posting Strong Job Growth
From Oregon, a report showing strong growth in the restaurant and farm industries that pay the state's high minimum wage.
http://www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?pa...
Oregon Minimum Wage Increases Boost Welfare-to-Work Efforts - Report -5/29/98
Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://www.cbpp.org/529ormw.htm
Does an Increase in the Minimum Wage Result in a Higher Unemployment Rate?
Article discussing the employment effects of the minimum wage, with a long list of annotated links to other arguments pro and con.
http://www.swcollege.com/bef/policy_debate...
Minimum Wage - It Just Doesn't Add Up
Article on how US minimum wage jobs are not enough to support a family, and keep families in grinding poverty.
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0829-0...
Minimum Wage Escalation
Examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy.
http://www.amatecon.com/etext/mwe/mwe-es.h...
Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain
Essay concerning the origin of the minimum wage and its negative impact on women, minorities, and unskilled workers.
http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=356
U.S. Minimum Wage History
Three charts showing changes in the minimum wage, its value, and its relationship to the poverty level over the last several decades.
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/mi...
U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division
Information from the federal Department of Labor.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/
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