To put these debates in context, the New York Times recently published an interactive tool showing the hard choices that 4.8 million Americans living on the smallest paychecks have to make. Could you live on the minimum wage?
Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/09/opinion/minimum-wage.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-a-higher-minimum-wage.html
TeachingwithData.org:
Men's Real Hourly Wages by Education, 1973-2007 (http://www.teachingwithdata.org/resource/2947)
Topics At A Glance: Poverty (http://www.teachingwithdata.org/resource/2967)
Income Inequality in the US (http://www.teachingwithdata.org/resource/3182)
Brookings Institution Interactive: The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (http://www.teachingwithdata.org/resource/3921)
Recession Trends (http://www.teachingwithdata.org/resource/3067)
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