National News

San Francisco to be first city in US history to set minimum wage over $10

By Joshua Sabatini
San Francisco Examiner, Dec 4 2011
San Francisco will become the first location in the nation to have a minimum wage higher than $10 after the hourly rate increases by 32 cents on Jan. 1. ...

Minimum wage in The City has increased each year automatically according to inflation since San Francisco voters in November 2003 approved the minimum wage law Proposition L. The measure was placed on the ballot through a signature-gathering campaign.

Eat Ethically - 1st Annual ROC National Diners' Guide 2012

By Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC)
Dec 1 2011

Today, at ROC High Road Roundtable member Eatonville in Washington, D.C., ROC unveiled a National Diners’ Guide 2012: A Consumers Guide on the Working Conditions of America’s Restaurants (www.rocunited.org/dinersguide).

2011 American Values Survey: Widespread support for raising minimum wage to $10

By Public Religion Research Institute
Nov 8 2011
Overall, two-thirds (67%) of Americans favor increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.00 an hour.

Four States Announce Minimum Wage Increases

National Employment Law Center, Oct 3 2011

Minimum wage cost of living adjustments effective Jan. 1, 2012 in Colorado, Montana, Ohio, and Washington will give thousands of workers a wage boost ranging from 28 to 37 cents per hour, or $582 to $770 a year for a full-time worker.

CEOs to Workers: More for me, less for you

Op-ed by Holly Sklar
McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Jul 22 2011

Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has less buying power now than in 1956 – the year Elvis Presley first topped the charts, videotape was breakthrough technology and the Dow closed above 500 for the very first time.

The Economic Power of and Popular Support for Raising the Minimum Wage

By Lake Research Partners
Jun 7 2011
The public overwhelmingly supports raising the minimum wage and that support is reinforced in the current weak recovery. The public intuitively understands the minimum wage and consistently strongly approves of efforts to raise it by large margins. That support is noticeably deep and broad; in an era where many issues are highly polarized and vigorously debated by different demographic and partisan contingents, raising the minimum wage stands out as one of the most broadly embraced economic policies, with high levels of support across all partisan and demographic groups, bridging the gaps of age, race, education, and income.

Raising Minimum Wage Does Not Increase Unemployment

Jun 1 2011
Read the Research Summaries by the National Employment Law Project or the Full Studies by Arindrajit Dube, William Lester and Michael Reich and by Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube and Michael Reich.

A Minimum Wage Increase

Editorial 
New York Times, Mar 27 2011
As the nation grapples with a jobs crisis and unemployment hovers near 9 percent, it is easy for policy makers to forget the plight of those who work but earn very little. There are about 4.4 million workers earning the minimum wage or less, according to government statistics. This amounts to about 6 percent of workers paid by the hour. They need a raise.
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