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FACTS & STATS

Read outrageous facts about the minimum wage.
Sens. Kennedy, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have released a report on the minimum wage, Their Fair Share: Creating a Just Economy for Minimum Wage Families (PDF).
AFL-CIO Now blog: Go for a Real Minimum Wage Bill, Not Phony Republican Bills.
Read about what isn't a raise in the minimum wage.
Check out a chart on the minimum wage from 1938 to today from the U.S. Department of Labor website.
Americans support an increase in the minimum wage: Polls show a broad cross section of Americans support a minimum wage increase.
Get more information at the AFL-CIO Facts & Stats database.

GET INFO & TOOLS

Download a handbook on the minimum wage (PDF).
Economic Policy Institute Minimum Wage Issue Guide.
Learn about the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign.
Books: Get Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich’s account of going undercover as an "unskilled" worker, The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 35 Million Americans and more at The Union Shop Online.™

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