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Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage
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Binding minimum wage referendum's in U.S. states Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, in Nov.2014, with large popular support
11/03/2014
Initiatives in U.S. states for the minimum wage in 2014 elections. Initiatives are a way around the deadlock in Congress on the issue.
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Little Opposition Seen in Some Votes to Raise State Minimum Wages
New York Times 11/03/2014
Minimum-Wage Boosts, Pot Legalization Advance in State Ballot Measures
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2014
Election pay day: Five states adopt higher minimum-wage laws
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
Hiring Booms, but Soft Wages Linger
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2015
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Increase in the minimum wage in 29 U.S. states by Jan. 2015 bringing more food, bus fare to millions of Americans
12/31/2014
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States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
Andrew M. Cuomo: Fast-Food Workers Deserve a Raise
New York Times 05/06/2015
Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage
New York Times 04/22/2015
Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour
New York Times 05/19/2015
A stunning stat about pay seems impossible but actually is true - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/22/2015
Tackling middle class poverty in the U.S.- causes and strategies
03/11/2009
Shrinking incomes, low job growth, growth in temporary jobs, offshoring of jobs, are part of a trend since 1989. This is compounded by acceleration of developments during the last decade of low savings and paltry return on savings, effects on net worth of the financial crisis of 2008 through job losses, lost income, foreclosures, high cost of health care and college tution for children. The combination is creating a new kind of middle class poverty in the U.S. The Obama administration has pushed for college education even as it is becoming less affordable and neglected jobs training. The push to raise the minimum wage helps the poor but does not do as much for the middle class.
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Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary Tale
New York Times 06/09/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
8 States to Raise Minimum Wage
New York Times 12/23/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
New York Times 02/10/2010
Workers in U.S. fast-food retail stores and efforts to increase the minimum wage
04/15/2013
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Fast-food workers plan a new wave of walkouts across the nation - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/04/2013
$15 Wage in Fast Food Stirs Debate on Effects
New York Times 12/04/2013
Dwindling Tools to Raise Wages
New York Times 12/10/2013
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2014
America's Miserly Minimum Wage Needs an Upgrade
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2013
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
New York Times 04/27/2014
Australia's high minimum wage with lower employment in mining and construction in 2015-2016
01/26/2015
Discussion on the minimum wage is taking place in Australia which has the highest minimum wage in the world of $13, about twice the minimum wage in the U.S. It reflects an egalitarian culture in Australia and proponents say unemployment was high even in a period when the minimum wage was low. The minimum wage is 54% of the median wage in Australia, compared to 37% in the U.S., and is set at a level to reflect fairness. It has increased by 60% since 2000 to maintain worker's purchasing power.
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Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage
New York Times 04/22/2015
Economist 08/24/2015
The minimum wage in the U.S. 2010-2015
11/29/2011
Grouped Articles
8 States to Raise Minimum Wage
New York Times 12/23/2011
California Set to Raise State Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
In Washington State, Home of Highest Minimum Wage, a City Aims Higher
New York Times 10/13/2013
Patchwork of Local Wage Laws Fuels Debate Over Raising Federal Minimum
Wall Street Journal 12/01/2013
New York Times 12/01/2013
$15 Wage in Fast Food Stirs Debate on Effects
New York Times 12/04/2013
Ikea's plan to increase the minimum wage to $10.76 an hour for the U.S. in 2014
06/26/2014
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Ikea to Increase Minimum Hourly Pay
New York Times 06/26/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
Democrats Are Rallying Around $12 Minimum Wage
New York Times 04/22/2015
IKEA to Ratchet Up Its Hourly Pay in U.S.
Wall Street Journal 06/25/2015
The New York Times 09/16/2016
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decades
Washington Post 12/09/2016
Poverty among white Americans in 2010-2015
03/11/2009
A previous generation could count on good jobs in manufacturing with only a high school education. The last two decades of globalization have hit manufacturing jobs and wages in the U.S. hard and the impact is greatest on people without a college education. Other problems aggravating income and causing poverty is the increase of dropout rates from the labor force of young white American men, the effects of drug use and the lack of stable marraiges. This creates an underclass of whites in America, similiar to the underclass among minorities.
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Racial Wealth Gap Widened During Recession
New York Times 04/28/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
New York Times 06/22/2013
OECD report cites rising income inequality - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/06/2011
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
New York Times 02/10/2010
The changing demographics of minimum wage workers in the U.S. in 2014-2015
06/09/2014
Not just young people take minimum wage jobs as more people can only get part time low paying jobs following the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
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New York Times 06/09/2014
A part-timer boom, or blip? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/16/2014
A Growing Economic Recovery Bypasses Low-Wage Workers and Their Tables
New York Times 12/14/2014
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
After a Bounce, Wage Growth Slumps to 0.1%
New York Times 03/06/2015
Wal-Mart, Target stores, TJX in 2015- efforts to raise the U.S. minimum wage, and competition for lower wage workers
05/16/2014
Wal-Mart, Target stores, and TJX raise the wages to over $9 per hour in 2015.
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Wal-Mart Says It Won't Oppose Increase in Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
Wal-Mart Raising Wages as Market Gets Tighter
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Wal-Mart’s Raises Reflect Tighter Jobs Market
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2015
Target to Increase Wages to At Least $9/Hour for All Workers in April
Wall Street Journal 03/19/2015
The right level for the minimum wage in the U.S.- $10, $12 or $15?
04/15/2013
Grouped Articles
Dwindling Tools to Raise Wages
New York Times 12/10/2013
State of the Union: Obama Seeks to Narrow Income Gap
Wall Street Journal 01/29/2014
America's Miserly Minimum Wage Needs an Upgrade
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2013
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
New York Times 04/27/2014
Swiss to Vote on $25-an-Hour Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2014
Michigan Becomes Seventh State This Year to Raise Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
The minimum wage as political strategy- Democrats and state ballot measures in the U.S. for 2014-2015
04/15/2013
A push at the federal level for the minimum wage by the Obama administration in the U.S. and a push for state ballot measures by Democrats is the political strategy of Democrats in 2014. The idea is to make this a wedge issue with Republicans and tap into growing populism with the increasing gap in incomes.
Grouped Articles
Democrats Turn to Minimum Wage as 2014 Strategy
New York Times 12/29/2013
America's Miserly Minimum Wage Needs an Upgrade
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2013
Michigan Becomes Seventh State This Year to Raise Minimum Wage
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2014
Strong Voice in ‘Fight for 15’ Fast-Food Wage Campaign
New York Times 12/04/2014
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Economic-Ladder Concerns Trump Income Gap in Poll
Wall Street Journal 05/05/2015
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