Web Directory

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

» 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

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

» 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

» 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

» 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 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

» 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

» 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