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It means somebody who has got a minimum-wage job is paying 10 percent.
WHITEHOUSE: Helping Small Businesses Grow and Create New Jobs
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Mr Miliband said the initiative was different from the government's Youth Contract in that it guaranteed a paid job on the minimum wage and on-the-job training, saying one of the government's work experience scheme was "the only work programme in history which does not guarantee work".
BBC: Miliband pledges 'real jobs guarantee' for youngsters
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Most of these blue states also have super-minimum wage laws that price low-income workers out of the job market.
WSJ: Laffer and Moore: The Red-State Path to Prosperity
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Venables worked full-time in a job with anti-social hours, earning close to the minimum wage, the court heard.
BBC: Profile: Jon Venables
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David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, has done the best-known empirical studies on job loss resulting from minimum wage hikes.
FORBES: The Minimum Wage: It's All Local
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The vast majority of studies assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage conclude that it hurts job prospects for young, low-skilled workers who already face a 23.4 percent unemployment rate and that it disproportionately affects young minority workers.
FORBES: It's Not Just The Minimum Wage, It's Also The Health Insurance Mandate
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Overall, economists have become less worried about the job-destroying effects of a modest hike in the minimum wage.
ECONOMIST: The minimum wage
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Last week, 2.0 million people took to the streets across France to protest against the handling of the economy and job cuts, and to demand a raise to the minimum wage -- a call which the government has rejected.
FORBES: Market Scan
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Below is a plot of the historic minimum wage and the percent of all 16-19 year old individuals in the population that have a job.
FORBES: The Minimum Wage: More Baloney
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As a result, there are 4-5 times more people currently unemployed or who have given up looking for a job than earn the minimum wage.
FORBES: The Minimum Wage: Putting the First Rung on the Ladder of Success Out of Reach