| 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. |
| Justice and Charity in Wages: This article gives a Roman Catholic perspective on the minimum wage debate. |
| 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 - 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. |
| Minimum Wage and Fairness: Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| SuperSizeMyPay Canada: A campaign to end the Canadian training wage, raise the minimum wage to $12/hour, and win workers the respect they deserve. |
| 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. |
| The Just Income Coalition - Why Increase the Minimum Wage?: Though undated and about the Canadian minimum wage, a clear description of minimum wage issues. |
| 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 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: Washingtons Perennial Myth: From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage. |
| 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. |
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