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SK/A03.04) STATES NEWS SERVICE, March 26, 2014, pNA, GALE CENGAGE
LEARNING, Expanded Academic ASAP. "Americans agree that no one who works full time should
ever have to raise a family in poverty," Rangel [U.S. Congressman] pointed out. "And yet today a
single mother with two children, working full-time, year-round, and earning the federal minimum wage
of $7.25 per hour, makes only $14,500 a year, $5,000 below the poverty line."
SK/A03.06) Mark Trumbull, THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, November 6, 2014,
pNA, LexisNexis Academic. For the record, someone who earns the federal minimum of $7.25 for 40
hours a week would have enough income to be above the federal poverty line of $11,670 for an
individual, but not enough to be above the $15,730 poverty line for supporting a two-person household.
(living-wage solves for poverty while the minimum wage doesn't)
7.9.2 The goal of the living wage movement is to eliminate poverty among the
working poor.
Rachel Harvey, [BSFS in Foreign Serivce, Georgetown University, JD, University of Florida College of
Law], Labor Law: Challenges to the Living Wage Movement: Obstacles in a Path to Economic
Justice, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 13, 2002-2003.
One of the main goals of the living wage movement is to eliminate poverty among the working poor by
raising wages paid by the county and the city as well as by the businesses
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contracted by the county and city.8 In support of this argument, advocates of living wage ordinances
typically compare the income of a minimum-wage worker working forty hours per week, fifty weeks per
year to the poverty threshold income for families of two to four.
Contention 3???? (I am not completely sure how to incorporate this into my case)
(A living-wage is necessary it solves the problems above and has no negative impact on employment
rates as proven by the Card and Krueger method.)
One of the most well-known and oft-cited studies is Card and Krueger (1994), which offered
evidence that changes in minimum wage do not impact employment rates. Their survey design formed
the basis for many of the studies of the following decade. The model is outlined in their abstract:2
On April 1, 1992, New Jerseys minimum wage rose from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the
impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania
before and after the rise. Comparisons of employment growth at stores in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania (where the minimum wage was constant) provide simple estimates of the effect of the
higher minimum wage. We also compare employment changes at stores in New Jersey that were
initially paying high wages (above $5) to the changes at lower-wage stores. We find no indication that
the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment.