Minimum Wage

Background
Background on Minimum Wage

Latest News
ACORN: ACORN Celebrates Minimum Wage Increase (7/23/08)
Let Justice Roll: National Faith-Community Alliance Launches Campaign to End Poverty Wages (7/22/08)
HNR: Finally - Federal Minimum Wage Increase Signed into Law (6/1/07)
HNR: Minimum Wage Languishes as Workers Wait (05/04/07)
HNR: Changes to Minimum Wage Package on Vehicle with Uncertain Outcome (3/30/07)
HNR: Minimum Wage Increase, Children's Health Attached to Supplemental Spending Bill (03/16/07)

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Policy Analyses and Research
EPI: Minimum Wage Issue Guide (updated 7/21/09)
Let Justice Roll: Raise the Minimum Wage to $10 in 2010 (7/22/08)
EPI: What a new Federal Minimum Wage Means for the States (5/25/07)
EPI: Minimum Wage - Facts at a Glance (January 2007)
EPI: Frequently Asked Questions about the Minimum Wage (January 2007)
Let Justice Roll: A Just Minimum Wage - Good for Workers, Business and Our Future
NWLC: Working Women Need an Increase in the Minimum Wage--Now! (December 2006)
EPI: State Minimum Wages: A policy that works (11/27/06)
Economist and CHN Treasurer Jared Bernstein:  The Day the System Worked (8/4/06)

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Government Resources
Status of Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2005 - S 1062 (introduced by Sen. Kennedy 5/19/05)
CBO: Cost Estimate of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2004 (5/3/04)
Status of Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2004 - S 2370 (introduced by Sen. Kennedy 4/29/04)
Testimony by EPI before House Subcommittee on Workforce Empowerment and Gov't Programs (4/29/04)

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