» 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.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

» 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

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

» 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/

» 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: 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. 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