Article: CBPP: Federal Minimum Wage Remains Unchanged for Eighth Straight Year, Falls to 56-Year Low Relative to the Average Wage

Article: Minimum wage may get chance in Arizona: $6.75 per ...
AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ);  June 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... already are making well above the minimum wage and entry-level workers are worth minimum wage until they develop skills. "We ... already is higher than the federal minimum wage. The average wage among

Article: Mexican government increases minimum wage by 4.25 ...
AP Worldstream;  December 20, 2003 ;     288 words ... ... slowly being phased out, the minimum wage in Mexico's poorest regions ... per day, the government's Minimum Wage Commission announced. While ... of Mexican workers earn the minimum wage _ the average wage is about 2.5 times higher ...

Transcript: MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE IMPACT ON SMALL ...
Congressional Testimony;  April 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... minimum wage was $5.19 compared to $5.15 today. Figure 3: Federal Minimum Wage Relative to Average Wage, 1947- 2004 - In 2004, the minimum wage relative to the average wage was 33%, the lowest value since 1949.[2] This figure gives an ...

Article: Mexico grants four percent increase in minimum wage
AP Worldstream;  December 21, 2005 ;     294 words ... ... respectively, according to a minimum-wage commission representing the ... steam in the 1990s, Mexico's minimum wage has slowly begun recovering ... of Mexican workers earn the minimum wage _ the average wage is about 2.5 times higher ...

Article: Mexico sets small increase in minimum wage
AP Worldstream;  December 17, 2004 ;     382 words ... ... government, labor and industry minimum wage commission, average out to ... much of the 1990s, Mexico's minimum wage has slowly begun recovering ... of Mexican workers earn the minimum wage _ the average wage is about 2.5 times higher ...

Article: DEMS FAVOR MINIMUM WAGE HIKE; GOP MOSTLY ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... s a large number of people on the minimum wage raising families, and this is going ... s a growing disparity between the minimum wage and the average wage. If we don't raise the minimum wage, we'll be putting an increasing number ...

Article: New York Minimum-Wage Workers Walk Tightrope over ...
Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Albany. Since its creation, the minimum wage has been raised 25 times. In the ... Spitz said, the idea behind the minimum wage has been lost. In 1938, the minimum wage was half the average wage being earned in the United States ...