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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. http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/case.htm

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

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. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-11_15_05_TS_pf.html

Livable Wage Legislation From Vermont's livable wage campaign, lots of information about the economics and politics of raising the state's minimum wage. http://www.vtlivablewage.org/legislation.html

Minimum Wage and Fairness Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive. http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=674

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. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_viewpoints_raising_minimum_wage_2004

Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain Essay concerning the origin of the minimum wage and its negative impact on women, minorities, and unskilled workers. http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=356

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

Minimum Wage Escalation Examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy. http://www.amatecon.com/etext/mwe/mwe-es.html

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. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuebriefs_ib133

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. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_minwage_minwage

The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.html

Oregon Minimum Wage Increases Boost Welfare-to-Work Efforts - Report -5/29/98 Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. http://www.cbpp.org/529ormw.htm

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. http://www.raiseminwage.org/

U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division Information from the federal Department of Labor. http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/

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. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html

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) http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0829-08.htm