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  Minimum wage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The costs and benefits arising from minimum wages are subject to considerable disagreement among economists, though the consensus among economics textbooks is that minimum wage laws should be avoided whenever possible as the costs exceed the benefits.
The traditional view that minimum wages have significant negative effects on employment is straightforward if one assumes that labor markets for low-skill workers can be characterized as fitting the model of a perfectly competitive market, where the only role of wages is as a cost.
The first attempt at establishing a minimum wage in the United States came in 1933, when a $.25-per-hour standard was set as part of the National Recovery Act.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minimum_wage   (2986 words)

  
 Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century
I have tried to keep commentary to a minimum, although I would have to be a robot to avoid passing occasional judgement on the accuracy of some of these estimates.
The 24 quasi-governments on Rummel's list racked up a median death toll of 100,000, which means that, on average, quasi-governments are three times bloodier than governments.
users.erols.com /mwhite28/warstats.htm   (5407 words)

  
 Statistical Data search
The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
In the country lists, these are mainly web pages provided by statistical offices, central banks and government departments and agencies, whereas the topics list is comprised of links to the statistics pages of international organizations and associations and a few commercial sites.
Annotations have been kept to a minimum as it is normally obvious from the name of the data collection or its source what kind of data can be expected.
www.findthelinks.com /search/statistical_data_search.htm   (3737 words)

  
 insurance - insurance-notes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Travel insurance is an insurance cover taken by those who travel abroad, which covers certain losses such as medical expenses, lost of personal belongings, travel delay, personal liabilities..
Workers' compensation insurance replaces all or part of a worker's wages lost and accompanying medical expense incurred due to a job-related injury.
In response to these issues, governments often make detailed regulations that set down minimum standards for policies and govern how they may be advertised and sold.
insurance-notes.com   (6238 words)

  
 ALA-APA
Individual library listings as well as aggregate data are included in categories by population served.
Surveys the rise and fall of pay equity at the federal level; reviews existing pay equity laws at the state and local level and in international settings; argues that comparable worth efforts at the national level should be resurrected and discusses obstacles to a national movement and strategies for dealing with these obstacles.
For example, wages for librarians in the U.S. and by state are given and an "Occupation Report-Wage Comparison" lists states in rank order by the median wage for librarians; methods are provided to compare wages against those of five other occupations by local area (city); Note: the amount and quality of information varies by state.
www.ala-apa.org /salaries/payequitybib.html   (7273 words)

  
 Anthro.Net: Demography
Global Statistics - country profiles (provinces and main cities) to the highest mountains in the world, to a list of all countries in the world with their capitals, surface area and population
H-DEMOG - Michigan State University - a discussion list and scholarly network for demographic history.
History of the Mininum Wage - What was the minimum wage in 1941?
home1.gte.net /ericjw1/population.html   (875 words)

  
 A Leftist Youth Journal Based in the U.S.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The goal is to rally the many different parts of the wider working class together and stand up for what we need -- to 'privilege' our needs over capital.
Fed up with their inexcusably low poverty-line wages and bare-minimum medical care, Full-time Food Service Workers and Noon Time Aides working for the Philadelphia school District have been waging a campaign for decent wages and benefits.
Recently M. Junaid Alam, co-editor of the new radical youth journal Left Hook (http://www.lefthook.org), had the opportunity to discuss the situation with Warren Heyman, chief negotiator for Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union Local 634 and Secretary Treasurer of Local 217.
www.lefthook.org /Interviews.html   (4430 words)

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