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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.
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.
Livable Wage Legislation
- From Vermont's livable wage campaign, lots of information about the economics and politics of raising the state's minimum wage.
Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain
- Essay concerning the origin of the minimum wage and its negative impact on women, minorities, and unskilled workers.
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.
Minimum Wage Escalation
- Examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy.
Minimum Wage and Fairness
- Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive.
Oregon Minimum Wage Increases Boost Welfare-to-Work Efforts - Report -5/29/98
- Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
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.
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.
The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research
- Sources of information about the United States federal and state minimum wages, arguments both for and against raising it, research studies, and the wage in other countries.
The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth
- From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage.
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.
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.
(August 29, 2001)
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