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Minimum wages and poverty : "Nick Rowe Stephen Gordon points to some work in Canada showing minimum wages increase poverty rates. Minimum wage workers are mostly second earners and young folks. The ones who lose their jobs push their families into poverty . ...

Living wage and poverty forum set for tonight at SFU Surrey : "Living wages and child poverty will be topic of debate at a public forum tonight at SFU Surrey. The forum will focus on living wages as a solution to child and family poverty in Surrey. Different than the minimum wage, which is the legal minimum all ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Raising the minimum wage to reduce poverty : "The recent increase in minimum wages across Canada is due in part to the creation of poverty reduction strategies, which have focused attention on minimum wages. Starting in Quebec and then Newfoundland and Labrador, poverty reduction strategies ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Poverty In Latin America On The Rise After a Decade of Decline - This growth has clearly been fostered by countries' distributive and redistributive policies, such as tax reforms, minimum wages, pensions and transfers linked to poverty reduction strategies and to the expansion of social protection systems,” said Alicia Barcena, Cepal's Executive Secretary, at a press ...

A case for higher living wage in Europe : Rising the actual minimum wages would benefit families at risk of social exclusion and poverty with no backlash results for the stability of those jobs. This isn't even a new idea. In 2006, more than 650 economists—five Nobel Prize and six presidents ... The Corner Economic

Debate: Minimum wage policies hurt the poor : "While poverty activists, politicians and policy makers who push for higher minimum wages might have good intentions, the unpleasant reality is that minimum wage increases don't help the poor. Let's start with one of the most common misconceptions, ...

Democrats in the House have the chance to end poverty wages and increase paychecks for 27 million American workers. There's no ... View article...

Why Walmart Should Follow Gap's Lead And Raise Its Minimum Wage  - For a generation, the wages of most American workers have fallen or ... economy is replete with poverty -level jobs that offer minimal, if any, benefits.