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The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research

                                                                                                             

Overview: The Benefits of Raising the Minimum Wage

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From a site for veterans, succinct statements of the arguments for and against minimum wage increases. 

Three sets of valuable minimum wage resources from a progressive research organization: facts at a glance, tables and charts, and other related EPI publications. Updated 2009

Two presentations to a House of Representatives subcommittee in 1999 and 2004 that make the liberal case for the minimum wage clearly. From a former senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden.

Bill Moyers' Journal: Holly Sklar on wages and work

A 12-minute interview with a veteran writer on the erosion of hourly wages. June 2008

Minimum wage hikes don't eliminate jobs, study finds. UCBerkelyNews

In comparing counties opposite each other along the borders of states with different minimums, the study also claims to have escaped the flaws of other minimum wage studies based on national or local figures. December 2010

Fox's John Stossel is Wrong to Oppose the Minimum Wage. Huffington Post

From Anne Thompson of the National Employment Law Project, a solid rebuttal of the TV commentator's argument that a higher minimum wage kills jobs and is wasted on teenagers. January 2011

Could Courts Outlaw the Minimum Wage? Time Magazine

The legal history of the minimum wage and the possible consequences of making it unconstitutional. October 2010

Minimum Wage Hike and a Tight Economy. National Public Radio

When the federal minimum wage rose to $6.55, NPR heard from an economist about the impact on small businesses and their low wage workers. July 2008

Adam Smith on the Minimum Wage?

A passage on necessary wages from The Wealth of Nations.

Maximum Support for Raising the Minimum. Pew Research Center

Though some of the 2006 numbers here are a little outdated, the commentary about durable attitudes towards the minimum wage is useful.

Two 2007 articles by an Economic Policy Institute economist analyzing two common responses to minimum wage increases: that tax cuts are needed to offset the added cost to small businesses and that the earned income tax credit is a more effective way to help the working poor.  

Facebook: Interns Must Be Paid the Minimum Wage

The Facebook page under this title, maintained in England, supports young people who can't find a permanent job without a work history and yet can't afford to serve as interns without pay.

Tune In, Walk Out. The Harvard Crimson

In the spirit of the Occupy movement, Harvard students walk out on an economics professor whose positions on the minimum wage and other topics they consider simplistic and one-sided. November 2011

Minimum wage increases may have less of an effect on employment than previously thought. Illinois University

Summary of a study focused on Illinois and other midwest states between 2003 and 2005.  October 2008

Using the Minimum Wage to Beat the Competition. New York Times

From the Times "Freakonomics" blog, comments on use of the minimum wage in Germany's postal service to force competitors to raise wages. 2008

The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research