Includes resources, reports, relevant legislation, and policy analysis.Essay concerning the origin of the minimum wage and its negative impact on women, minorities, and unskilled workers.

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Minimum Wage - It Just Doesn`t Add Up

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Does an Increase in the Minimum Wage Result in a Higher Unemployment Rate?

From Oregon, a report showing strong growth in the restaurant and farm industries that pay the state`s high minimum wage.Examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy.

Minimum Wage and Fairness

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This article gives a Roman Catholic perspective on the minimum wage debate.

Raising the National Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research

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Minimum Wage Employers Posting Strong Job Growth

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www.swcollege.com/bef/policy_debates /increase_minimum.html

www.chn.org/dia/organizations/chn/issues/minimumwage/index.html

A wide range of sources about the federal minimum wage, arguments both for and against raising it, research studies , news, politics, and the wage in other countries.

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Livable Wage Legislation

Provides brief history of the minimum wage, its adjusted value over decades, and current efforts to increase it.

www.dol.gov/esa/whd /flsa/

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From the Coalition on Human Needs.

SuperSizeMyPay Canada

The Minimum Wage and Its Effects on Small Business

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Article on how US minimum wage jobs are not enough to support a family, and keep families in grinding poverty.

www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_minwage_minwage

Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive.

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From Vermont`s livable wage campaign, lots of information about the economics and politics of raising the state`s minimum wage.

www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=356

www.cbpp.org/529ormw.htm

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Economic Policy Institute guide on the benefits of the minimum wage and effects of an increase, FAQ, and database of related news articles.A campaign to end the Canadian training wage, raise the minimum wage to $12/hour, and win workers the respect they deserve.

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Ignoring Economics

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Minimum Wage Issue Guide

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Justice and Charity in Wages

www.amatecon.com/etext /mwe/mwe-es.html

www.raiseminwage.org

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www.vtlivablewage.org/legislation.html

An economist`s testimony to a House of Representatives subcommittee on why the federal minimum wage should be raised.

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Minimum Wage

www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=nr050916minwage

Oregon Minimum Wage Increases Boost Welfare-to-Work Efforts - Report -5/29/98

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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.

www.supersizemypay .net

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Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain

www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=674

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Article discussing the employment effects of the minimum wage.Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.