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Does an Increase in the Minimum Wage Result in a Higher Unemployment Rate? - http://www.swcollege.com/bef/policy_debates/increase_minimum.html
Article discussing the employment effects of the minimum wage, with a long list of annotated links to other arguments pro and con.

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

Livable Wage Legislation - http://www.vtlivablewage.org/legislation.html
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 - http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0829-08.htm
Article on how US minimum wage jobs are not enough to support a family, and keep families in grinding poverty.

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

Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain - http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=356
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 - http://www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=nr050916minwage
From Oregon, a report showing strong growth in the restaurant and farm industries that pay the state's high minimum wage.

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

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

The Case Against a Higher Minimum Wage - http://www.house.gov/jec/cost-gov/regs/minimum/case.htm
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 Minimum Wage and Its Effects on Small Business - http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_viewpoints_raising_minimum_wage_2004
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 - http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuebriefs_ib133
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: Information, Opinion, Research - http://www.raiseminwage.org/
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.

The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth - http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.html
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 - http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/
Information from the federal Department of Labor.

U.S. Minimum Wage History - http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html
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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