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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.aspx?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.aspx?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

The Minimum Wage: Information, Opinion, Research Sources of information about the United States federal and state minimum wages, arguments both for and against raising it, research studies, and the wage in other countries. http://www.raiseminwage.org/

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

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