The minimum wage is the lowest legal wage paid to workers in certain categories. In the U.S., minimum hourly wages are set by the federal government and by the states. In other countries, minimum wages (by the day or month as well as the hour) can be the result of labor negotiations as well as legislation. 1. Justice and Charity in Wages - This article gives a Roman Catholic perspective on the minimum wage debate. 2. 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. 3. Minimum Wage and Fairness - Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive. 4. Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain - Essay concerning the origin of the minimum wage and its negative impact on women, minorities, and unskilled workers. 5. Minimum Wage Escalation - Examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy. 6. 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. 7. Oregon Minimum Wage Increases Boost Welfare-to-Work Efforts - Report -5/29/98 - Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 8. U.S. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division - Information from the federal Department of Labor. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. Livable Wage Legislation - From Vermont's livable wage campaign, lots of information about the economics and politics of raising the state's minimum wage. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. SuperSizeMyPay Canada - A campaign to end the Canadian training wage, raise the minimum wage to $12/hour, and win workers the respect they deserve. 15. 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. 16. The Just Income Coalition - Why Increase the Minimum Wage? - Though undated and about the Canadian minimum wage, a clear description of minimum wage issues. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth - From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage. 20. 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.

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