For more than a century, advocates have promoted minimum wage laws to protect workers
and their families from poverty. Opponents counter that the policy has, at best, small poverty …

This study investigates the antipoverty efficacy of minimum wage policies. Proponents of
these policies contend that employment impacts are negligible and suggest that consumers …

Setting a higher minimum wage seems like a natural way to help lift families out of poverty.
However, minimum wages target individual workers with low wages, rather than families …

Using data drawn from the March Current Population Survey, we find that state and federal
minimum wage increases between 2003 and 2007 had no effect on state poverty rates …

Extending the work of Card and Krueger, we find minimum‐wage increases (1988–2003)
did not affect poverty rates overall, or among the working poor or among single mothers …

Executive Summary Politicians from Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry to
Senator Ted Kennedy are pushing to increase the minimum wage to $7.00 an hour. This 36 …

While a number of policymakers have argued that raising the minimum wage will reduce
material hardship, empirical evidence to support or refute this claim is scant. Using data …

The minimum wage has been at the center of much political debate recently. Many policy
makers and scholars believe that increasing the minimum wage only has positive effects for …

" Tonight let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full-time
should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage..."—President Barack H …

Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is
little causal evidence that they do so. Most workers who gain from minimum wage increases …