Like my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SkylerLehto Follow me on Twitter: @SkylerLehto Sources: 2012 BLS Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.pdf Food service productivity graph: http://www.minimumwage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Productivity-Comparison-Graph.jpg Christopher Wheeler study: http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/05/05/Wheeler.pdf The race between education and technology: http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-between-Education-Technology/dp/0674035305 Christina Romer on the minimum wage: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/business/the-minimum-wage-employment-and-income-distribution.html OECD comparative price level data: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CPL# Unpaid work report for Australia: http://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay/student-placement-and-unpaid-work/pages/unpaid-work-research-report.aspx Neumark & Wascher (1997): http://www.nber.org/papers/w6127 Vedder & Gallaway (2001): http://www.epionline.org/studies/vedder_06-2001.pdf Sabia & Burkhauser (2010): http://www.people.vcu.edu/~lrazzolini/GR2010.pdf Sabia & Nielsen (2012): http://epionline.org/studies/120228_EPI_CanRaisingtheMinWageReducePovertyandHardship.pdf Douglas Holtz-Eakin on the minimum wage: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/12/04/making-low-wages-liveable/raising-minimum-wage-is-misguided-policy 78.7 percent of minimum wage workers were not in poverty in 2011: http://americanactionforum.org/research/primer-minimum-wage-and-combating-poverty Three-fifths of minimum wage workers get pay raises within one year: http://epionline.org/studies/macpherson_06-2004.pdf Only four percent of MW workers are single parents: http://www.heritage.org/research/factsheets/2014/01/facts-about-the-minimum-wage#_edn17 James Sherk (Heritage) testimony on MW (includes implicit marginal tax rates): http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/2013/06/what-is-minimum-wage-its-history-and-effects-on-the-economy 65 percent of adults in poverty do not work: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/historical/people.html Minimum wage effect on prices: http://ftp.iza.org/dp1072.pdf Card & Krueger (1994): http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/njmin-aer.pdf Dube, Lester, Reich (2010): http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/157-07.pdf Allegretto, Dube, Reich (2011): http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/166-08.pdf Neumark & Wascher response to CK (1995): http://www.nber.org/papers/w5224 Neumark, Salas, Wascher response to DLR, ADR (2013): http://www.nber.org/papers/w18681 Antony Davies on minimum wage: http://mercatus.org/publication/unintended-consequences-raising-minimum-wage Neumark & Wascher (2006) meta-review of MW research: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12663 Neumark & Nizalova (2004) on long-run MW effects: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10656 Walter Williams on minimum wage effects on black teens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DS0XXFdyfI Minimum wage associated with black teen unemployment: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6281 http://www.nber.org/papers/w849 http://www.epionline.org/study/r103/ Other good links: Cato summary of minimum wage effects: http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/labor/negative-effects-minimum-wage-laws#6 Coomer & Wessels on larger MW effects for MW-employed teens: http://www.epionline.org/studies/Coomer_Wessels_08-2010.pdf Neumark & Wascher international minimum wage study (2003): http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2003/200323/200323pap.pdf Neumark & Wascher argue against publication bias (1998): http://www.nber.org/papers/w5631.pdf Analysis of UChicago MW poll results: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2249040 A 2006 survey of AEA PhD members indicates 46.8% prefer to eliminate minimum wage: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ev.2006.3.9/ev.2006.3.9.1156/ev.2006.3.9.1156.xml EITC already bolsters low-wage workers' incomes: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/the-minimum-wage-aint-what-it-used-to-be/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/help-the-working-poor-but-share-the-burden.html (P.S. I know the thumbnail of this video has supply and demand confused; the graphic is an embarrassing fail from a Daily Show mockery of Peter Schiff.)

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