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Hestina Harris -Katel, Peter. "Minimum Wage." //CQ Researcher// 15.44 (2005): 1053-1076. //CQ Researcher//. Web. 7 Dec. 2009. . __-state minimum wage__. 2009. 11/4/09 . -__minimum wage__. 2209. 11/4/09 .

- Minimum wage is $7.25 - Since then minimum wage earners have lost 17 % of their purchasing power to inflation. - Supporters of increasing the rate say it would lift many Americans out of poverty and, business groups say an increase would not be good for the working poor because it would cause companies to lay off - Moreover, 82 % of Americans polled in January 2005 of raising the federal minimum wage - Affluent Americans have gotten richer while the lower economic classes are falling further behind - The share of poor house households increased from 12.5% to 12.7% of the population - 7.6 million people earn less than the proposed new minimum of $7. - business lobbyist acknowledge that additional labor cost often come out of employer's pockets - labor cost can also hurt workers - labor cost can also hurt worker - Low income for 10,000 employees $87 million - Increased labor income for employees is $263 million - about 22 million are employed or live with a household worker - while the rich are getting richer in the United States are getting poor

= = State Minimum Wage __State ....................................................2009 .....................................2010__ - Alabama - ..........................................$7.25 ...................................$7.25 - Alaska - ..............................................$7.25 ..................................$7.25 - Arizona - ............................................$7.25 ...................................$7.25 - Arkansas - ..........................................$7.25 ...................................$7.25 - California - .........................................$8.00 ...................................$8.00 - Colorado - ..........................................$7.28....................................$7.24 - Connecticut - .....................................$8.00 ...................................$8.25 - Delaware - .........................................$7.25 ...................................$7.25 - District of Columbia ...........................$8.25 ...................................TBA - Florida - ..............................................$7.25 ..................................$ 7.25 - Georgia - .............................................$7.25 ..................................$7.25 - Hawaii - ..............................................$7.25 ...................................$7.25 - Idaho - ................................................$7.25 ...................................$7.25 - Illinois - ..............................................$8.00 ....................................$8.25 - Indiana - .............................................$7.25 ....................................$7.25 - Iowa - .................................................$7.25 ....................................$7.25 - Kansas - ..............................................$2.65 ....................................$7.25 - Kentucky - ..........................................$7.25 ....................................$7.25 - Maine - ................................................$7.25 ....................................$7.50 - Maryland - ...........................................$7.25 ....................................$7.25 - Massachusetts - ...................................$8.00 ....................................$8.00 - Michigan - ...........................................$7.40 ....................................$7.40 - Minnesota - .........................................$6.15 ....................................$6.15 - Mississippi - ........................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Missouri - ............................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Montana - ............................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Nebraska - ...........................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Nevada - ...............................................$7.55 .....................................TBA - New Hampshire - .................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 - New Jersey - .........................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - New Mexico - ......................................$7.50 ......................................$7.50 - New York - ..........................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 - North Carolina - ...................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 - North Dakota - .....................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 - Ohio - ...................................................$7.30 ......................................$7.30 - Oklahoma - ...........................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 -Oregon - .................................................$8.40 ......................................$8.40 - Pennsylvania - .......................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 - Rhode Island - .......................................$7.40 .....................................$7.40 - South Carolina - .....................................$7.25 ....................................$7.25 - South Dakota - ......................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Texas - ...................................................$7.25 ....................................$7.25 - Tennessee - ............................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Utah - .....................................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Vermont - ...............................................$8.06 .....................................$8.06 - Virginia - ................................................$7.25 .....................................$7.25 - Washington - ..........................................$8.55 .....................................$8.55 - West Virginia - ........................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25 - Wisconsin - ............................................$7.25 .......................................$7.25 - Wyoming - ..............................................$7.25 ......................................$7.25

1.)Minimum wage increased from $5.15 an hour (in 2005) to $7.25 an hour 2.)2.8 million people, many of them being young, were affected by the increase 3.)About half of the people earning minimum wage are under 25 years old 4.)The increase in minimum wage should put an extra 5.5 billion dollars into the economy over this next year 5.)Some economists say that the increase will hurt the people it is trying to help because it might make business’ fire people or cut their hours 6.)Some say that if the minimum wage goes up then other people are going to want higher pays 7.)Increase in minimum wage makes it harder to hire more people, which is a bad thing, considering the unemployment is 10% 8.)The new minimum wage has not kept up with inflation; it is worth 17% less then the adjusted-for-inflation peak minimum wage 9.)Minimum wage is not sufficient for what people need to live on (living wage) 10.)Many say that people earning minimum wage are not the main providers for families, but many of the teens working for minimum wage are saving for college or helping out their families pay for basic needs

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__Living wage in Frederick, Maryland (per month)__ __...............................1 Adult |.Adult w/..Child |......2 Adults.......|.2.Adult..w/1 child..|2 Adult w/..2 children.|__ __11.)Food($)-__.................237.............386 .................457.................... 604 ......................75.......... __12.)Child Care($)-__ ............0 ............621 ....................0 ....................621 ...................1099.......... __13.)Medical($)-__ ..............93 ............184 .................186 ...................277 .....................368.......... __14.)Housing($)-__ ...........1163 ..........1324 ..............1168 ..................1324 ...................1324.......... __15.)Transportation($)-__ ....275 ...........474 .................551 ...................750 .....................949.......... __16.)Other($)-__ ................199 ............392 .................399 ...................591..................... 783......... __17.)Total($)-__ ................1974 ..........3384 ...............2761 .................4167.................... 5228......... __18.)Yearly($)-__ .............23888.........40608 ..............33132 ..............50004 ..................62736.........

19.)If a person made minimum wage and worked 40 hours a week, 4 weeks, a month, they would only make $1160 each month, minus taxes 20.)This income is not enough to make a living 21.)Many people that work for minimum wage must have 2 jobs to make enough money

^^^^ [] ^^^^ Glasmeier, Amy. __Living Wage Calculator__. 2009 The Pensylvania State University. December 3, 2009 .

22.) 2 million families with children receive their earnings from minimum wage jobs 23.) Families that receive earnings from minimum wage jobs earn $15,000 or under each year 24.) The poverty line for a person living by themselves is an earnings of $10,830 per year, and increases $3,740 per person (14570, 18310, 22050, 25790, 29350, etc..) 25.) Between 1997 and 2003, small business employment increased by 9.4% in higher minimum wage states, compared to 6.6% in stats at the federal minimum wage level. This shows even with higher minimum wages, employment rate still rises 26.) A poll in 2006 found 83% of Americans supported a minimum wage increase

^^^^ http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/01/minwage.html ^^^^ __State of the Minimum Wage__. January 8, 2007. December 3, 2009 .

__Cost of Living In Maryland (compared to average nationwide)__ __....................................MD.......|......US............................__ Rent and Utilities- Loans- Insurance- Automobile-
 * Rent - ................$1208 ........($735)
 * Electricity - ........$121 ..........($86)
 * Television - ........$43 ............($40)
 * Phone service - ..$59 ............($46)
 * Internet - ............$23 ............($23)
 * Water - .............$23 .............($20)
 * Gas - ................$16 .............($26)
 * Monthly Total - ...$1494 .........($976)
 * Credit Cards - .....$239 ..........($145)
 * Auto - ................$314 ..........($135)
 * Student - ............$142 ..........($122)
 * Others - .............$48 ............($55)
 * Monthly Total - ...$743 ...........($457)
 * Auto - ................$99 .............($145)
 * Health - .............$87 .............($65)
 * Life - .................$13 .............($13)
 * Rental - .............$2 ...............($7)
 * Monthly Total - ...$201 ...........($230)
 * Fuel - ................$156 .............($117)
 * Repairs - ...........$32 ...............($19)
 * Monthly Total - ...$188 .............($136)

TOTAL YEARLY EXPENSES - $39,156 (27,732)

^^^^ http://www.leavingthefolks.com/cost.php ^^^^ __Estimate Cost of Living__. 2008. December 4, 2009 .

1.) Lots of economists believe the minimum wage law costs the economy thousands of jobs, as companies will not want to hire workers and pay them more money. ==>Businesses bring in large sums of money every day. If they were to pay their employees more money their workers would benefit, as even a couple dollars each hour would help them tremendously. Although this may cause some prices to rise, the help it would give to low wage workers would be well worth it. Plus, many of the places people buy products at, like McDonalds and Wal-Mart, would be only slightly affected, as they make billions of dollars each year, and several dollars an hour for low wage workers would not be a big problem.

2.) A high minimum wage makes it more likely for businesses to give jobs to illegal immigrants for a lower pay. ==> There will always be illegals working for lower then citizens. If we had a low minimum wage, immigrants would work for even lower, so we might as well help the citizens that we can.

3.)A higher minimum wage would likely not even help people that are working for their families necessities, as most people working for minimum wage are very young. ==> Many teenagers and younger people that are working for minimum wage are either saving up for college, a car, or helping their family with extra money. They are paying for things that their parents would otherwise have to pay for, so a raised minimum wage would help many people.

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unknwon, unknown. __Time__. april 5 2009. December 3 [|www.Time.com]. bryant, adam. __low income wages__. jan 7 2009. dec 3 2009 [|www.cqresearcher.com]. unknown, unknown. __minimum wage stats__. june 5 2008. dec 5 2009 [|www.cqresearcher.com].


 * 66.1% of women are paid at or below minimum wage
 * 33.9% of men are paid at or below minimum wage
 * Minimum wage is $7.25
 * For one adult transportation is $275 a month
 * medical expenses for one adult is on average $93 a month
 * for 2 children and 2 adults medical bills are on average $368 a month
 * San Francisco hourly wage is $9.79
 * if health benefits are not offered than companies are required to pay $1 to $2 more
 * Alabama, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, north and south Dakota, west Virginia, South Carolina and Alaska are states without living wage laws
 * Housing in Baltimore is on average $628 a month
 * Food expense in Baltimore is on average $210 a month
 * Monthly expenses all together is $3,237 in Baltimore
 * Yearly expenses all together in Baltimore is $38,839
 * Waitresses in Baltimore can make up to $100 a day in tips
 * Since 1994minimum wage has gone up $3
 * one-fifth of American households have suffered an average $629 loss in annual income since 1980,
 * The poverty rate fell, from 15.1 percent in 1993 to 14.5 percent.
 * Food stamps provide more than 2 million low-income working households with nutrition assistance worth an average of $187 a month
 * Nearly a third of the nation's poor people were uninsured.
 * working an average of 40 hours a week on minimum wage a person would make an average of $290
 * on average working minimum wage at 40 hours a week would come out to be $8,700 a month
 * Santa Fe has the highest minimum wage at $9.92 as of January 1, 2009
 * an average of 7.6 million earn below minimum wage
 * 31.6% of minimum wage workers have only a high school diploma
 * 28.9% of minimum wage workers have less than a high school diploma
 * 74.6% of minimum wag workers work in service occupations
 * the "working poor" earn an average of 35,548 a year

Kayla Johnson

Glasmeier, Amy K.. __Poverty in America, Living Wage Calculator__. December 4, 2009 <www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu>. Typical hourly wages for Maryland: -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> living wage: $32.86 -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> poverty wage: $9.83 -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> minimum wage: $7.25 -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> the annual living wage is the individual must earn to support their family working full time(2080 hours a year) -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> If a person makes $7.25 an hour for 40 hours a week, it totals to be $290 a week, and working 4 weeks a month that person is making $1160 a month -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> If a person who works under business management making $42.01 a hour makes $1680.40 a week and $6721.60 a month [|www.livingwage.geog.psu.edu] 2009 Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier and the Pennsylvania State University Site created by: West Arete computing
 * 1) management: $42.01
 * 2) business operations: $27.65
 * 3) computer and math: $37.71
 * 4) engineering: $29.94
 * 5) social science: $28.75
 * 6) legal: $31.84
 * 7) social services: $19.45
 * 8) entertainment: $19.46
 * 9) education: $22.32
 * 10) health care support: $19.45
 * 11) protective services: $18.99
 * 12) food preparation: $8.93
 * 13) cleaning/maintenance: $10.65
 * 14) Farming/fishing: $12.40
 * 15) construction: $17.46
 * 16) production: $14.71
 * 17) transportation: $13.84

__National Low Income Housing Coalition__. December 4, 2009 <www.nlihc.org>. - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The foreclosure crisis has been the housing story since 2007 - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> When all of it began, it simply was that some owners had taken out loans that they could not afford - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Causing home values to drop and lacking the ability to refinance and sell for profit - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> However this problem precipitated a full blown economic recession - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> But what is really important is that extremely low income renters were in the midst of a housing crisis well before the wave of foreclosures caught Americas attention - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> In 1995 a decade of condo conversions, housing speculations, gentrification resulted in a 17% shrinkage in the number of units affordable to renters earning less than $16000 - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Department of housing and urban development (HUD) estimated nearly a 6.0 million very low income (VLI) renters were either severely burdened by their housing or lived in standard housing (2005) - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> By 2007 the average extremely low income (ELI) renter households spent most of their income on housing costs - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> It’s important to remember that those numbers do not include 672,000 individuals who didn’t have a place to call home - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The unemployment and foreclosure and crisis have only made things more difficult for low income [|www.nlihc.org] National low income housing coalition 727 15th street NW Washington, D.C 2005 2006 National Low Income Housing Coalition

__CQ Press Electronic Library__. 2009 CQ Press. December 4, 2009 <www.library.cqpress.com>. Negative side of raising minimum wage: -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Raising minimum wage also raises prices on a lot of other things such as food - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> With 2.1 billion people around the world living on less than $2 dollars a day - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Price increases may plunge hundreds of millions into malnutrition and starvation - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Drought high oil prices which transport the food will also raise the prices [|www.library.cqpress.com] Author unknown

__United States House of Government__. December 4, 2009 <www.house.gov>. Negative side of raising minimum wage: -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Raising minimum wage hurts the poor - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Takes away jobs - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Encourages high-school students to drop out - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Hurts college students with payments - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Keeps people on welfare [|www.house.gov] 207 cannon house office building Washington, DC

__Labor Law Center__. 2008 Labor Law inc. December 4, 2009 <www.laborlawcenter.com>. -<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Effective July 24, 2009 the federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The change reflects the third and final federal minimum wage increase as amended under the fair labor standards act (FISA) - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> In cases where an employee is subject to both state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to the greater of the two wages - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 31 states are affected by the minimum wage increase : Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming, Kansa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For part-time workers the increase provides a silver-lining as employers choose to promote more within - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Low-skilled/youth workers also stand to gain under the assumption that they are currently employed - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> For teen workers it’s a negative in June 2009 the US department of Labor reported a 24% teen unemployment rate [|www.laborlawcenter.com] laborlawcenter inc, 2008