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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.

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• CATO - The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth

  http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.html
  1988 analysis by Matthew B. Kibbe, later head of FreedomWorks, of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage.

• CBPP - New Findings from Oregon Suggest Minimum Wage Increases Can Boost Wages for Welfare Recipients Moving to Work

  http://www.cbpp.org/529ormw.htm
  Report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

• ILO - Resource Guide on Minimum Wages

  http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/resource/subject/salary.htm
  Provides publications, statistics, media coverage, photos, videos, online resources along with ILO documents, databases and links. From the International Labour Organization, Bureau of Library and Information Services

• Mackinac Center - Minimum Wage and Fairness

  http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=674
  Study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive.

• Mackinac Center - 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 Escalation

  http://www.amatecon.com/etext/mwe/mwe-es.html
  Monograph by Thomas Sowell examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy.

• OCPP - Minimum Wage Employers Posting Strong Job Growth

  http://www.ocpp.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=nr050916minwage
  Report showing strong growth in the restaurant and farm industries that pay the state's high minimum wage, from the Oregon Center for Public Policy.

• Oregon State - Minimum Wage History

  http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html
  Four charts showing changes in the minimum wage, its value, and its relationship to the poverty level over the last several decades.

• Real Clear Politics - 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.

• Swarthmore College - Policy Debate: Does an Increase in the Minimum Wage Result in a Higher Unemployment Rate?

  http://www.swcollege.com/bef/policy_debates/increase_minimum.html
  2003 debate discussing the employment effects of the minimum wage, including annotated links to other arguments pro and con.

• The Guardian - Minimum Wage

  http://www.theguardian.com/society/minimum-wage
  Collected news, analysis and comment on the minimum wage issue.

• Wikipedia - Minimum Wage

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage
  Crowd-sourced encyclopedia article about the history and effects of minimum wage laws worldwide.

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