Minimum Wage Series
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Why it’s time to raise the wage: An interview with State Rep. Christian Mitchell
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Christian Mitchell is the State Representative for Illinois’ 26th district. He is one of the chief co-sponsors of House Bill 3718, which would raise the minimum wage in Illinois to $10.65 by 2016. Christian graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy Studies and began…
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Minimum Wage Increases: The Unintended Consequences
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Increases in minimum wages appear to help some poor families escape poverty while having the perverse effect of dragging other families below the poverty line.
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Minimum Wage: The Nobel Thing to Do
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Despite the widely held view that minimum wages generate unemployment, some Nobel-winning economists have argued that labor markets are more complex than predicted by economic theory.
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Do you want a higher minimum wage with that?
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This classic study of fast food restaurants challenged economic orthodoxy on the minimum wage.
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Does America deserve a raise? Everything you need to know about the minimum wage.
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The story of the minimum wage in six graphs. This is the first installment of our weeklong series on the minimum wage.