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Crossing Borders and Changing Lives, Lured by Higher State Minimum Wages
By Kirk Johnson • The New York Times • February 16, 2014 • 1,300 Words
Minimum Wage Poll In Illinois, Ohio Finds Big Support for Increased Pay
By Joseph Erbentraut • The Huffington Post • February 13, 2014 • 300 Words
Fight Over Minimum Wage Illustrates Web of Industry Ties
By Eric Lipton • The New York Times • February 10, 2014 • 1,800 Words
Ballot Measure Raising Minimum Wage to $12 an Hour Is Proposed
By Marc Lifsher • The Los Angeles Times • February 9, 2014 • 500 Words
Very Few American Workers Actually Make the Minimum Wage
By Matthew Boesler • Business Insider • February 9, 2014 • 400 Words
Campaign Underway to Lift Oakland's Minimum Wage
By Matthew Artz • The Oakland Tribune • February 9, 2014 • 600 Words
Raise Minimum Wage? City Shows Why It's Not So Simple
People in Massachusetts are arguing over a proposed raise in the minimum wage 75 cents above the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, and the Legislature is considering a bill to raise it to $11 by 2016, which would be among the highest in the nation.
By Rick Hampson • USA Today • February 8, 2014 • 1,500 Words
Raising the Minimum Wage Is More Popular Than Capitalism
By Emily Swanson • Emily Swanson • February 6, 2014 • 500 Words
Raising the Minimum Wage: A McDonald's-Killer, Not a McJobs-Killer
A new paper finds that fast-food restaurants are more likely to close when the minimum wage increases. The good news? New ones swoop right in to take their place.
By Jordan Weissmann • The Atlantic • February 6, 2014 • 400 Words
Higher Minimum Wage Leads Many Firms to Shutter, But New Ones Take Their Place
By Ben Leubsdorf • The Wall Street Journal • February 5, 2014 • 300 Words
Closing the Gap: Rep. George Miller on Why Raising the Minimum Wage Is Now Practical
By George Miller and Judy Woodruff • PBS Newshour • February 5, 2014 • 1,600 Words
As Minimum Wages Rise, Businesses Grapple with the Consequences
By Stacy Perman • The New York Times • February 5, 2014 • 1,300 Words
California Considers Highest Minimum Wage of Any State
By Kathleen Miles • The Huffington Post • February 4, 2014 • 800 Words
Bill Sponsor: Fears of Raising Minimum Wage Unfounded
By Allen Young • Sacramento Business Journal • February 4, 2014 • 300 Words
Minimum Wage a Defining Campaign Issue for Democrats
By Christopher Cadelago • The Sacramento Bee • February 4, 2014 • 1,400 Words
Minimum Wage on the Rise
By Melissa Simon • The Humboldt Beacon • February 2, 2014 • 700 Words
Minimum-Wage Debate Rages on
Consensus elusive, despite 75 years of experience, countless studies
By Gregory Karp • The Chicago Tribune • February 2, 2014 • 1,100 Words
Getting by with the Minimum
Low wage workers say they live check to check, stay with relatives to survive
By Robert McCoppin and Lolly Bowean • The Chicago Tribune • February 2, 2014 • 1,700 Words
Minimum Wage Clash Seeks New Battlegrounds
By Kati A. Turner • Liberty Voice • February 1, 2014 • 1,400 Words
Harkin: Minimum Wage Will Pass This Year
By Ed Tibbetts • The Sioux City Journal • February 1, 2014 • 300 Words
Poll Results: Minimum Wage
By Peter Moore • YouGov • January 29, 2014 • 900 Words
Conservative Ron Unz Pushing to Increase Minimum Wage
By Christopher Cadelago • The Sacramento Bee • January 29, 2014 • 300 Words
S.F. Praised as Model for U.S. on Increasing Minimum Wage
By Carolyn Lochhead • The San Francisco Chronicle • January 28, 2014 • 600 Words
Activist Ron Unz Proposes a New Minimum Wage Hike - with the Aim of Deterring Illegal Immigration
By Leslie Berestein Rojas • KPCC Radio • January 28, 2014 • 400 Words
Obama’s Minimum Wage Order: How Much Impact?
By Michael R. Crittenden and Eric Morath • The Wall Street Journal • January 28, 2014 • 600 Words