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Society: Issues: Labor: Minimum_Wage:
See also:
- 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..
- 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 and Fairness - Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- 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..
- The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth - From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage..
- Oregon Minimum Wage Increases Boost Welfare-to-Work Efforts - Report -5/29/98 - Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities..
- 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..
- U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division - Information from the federal Department of Labor..
- 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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