Bringing minimum wages above the poverty line

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Bringing minimum wages above the poverty line

Stuart Murray

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Stuart MurrayPublished 2007cover on file

This study shows that raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour (in 2005 dollars) is do-able - in fact, it has been done in Canada in the past. The real (after-inflation) minimum wage in BC reached $10.15 per hour in 1976, and a number of other jurisdictions have had real minimum wages close to $10.

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Publisher	Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives
Pages	54
Search language	english
ISBN_10	0-886-27531-8 primary
ISBN_13	978-0-886-27531-0 primary

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