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All of the evidence suggests that the minimum wage increase is well targeted, providing significant benefits to poor and middle-income households. Table 4 shows that about 18% of the benefits of a one-dollar increase would go to households with incomes below $10,000 per year;
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Single Mothers and the Minimum Wage; Advocates of increasing the federal minimum wage often insinuate that primary beneficiaries will be single mothers raising a family on a minimum wage income. As was mentioned above, only 3.8 percent of the benefits from an increase to $7.25 an hour accrue to poor single mothers.
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At the same time, an increasing share of workers earned wages above $6 and $7, suggesting that the increase in the minimum wage had spillover benefits for workers above the minimum wage.
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Increasing the minimum wage by one dollar will provide an increase of about $2,000 a year for a full-time, year-round minimum wage worker. ... The main point I'm going to make is that workers in poor or near-poor households get disappointingly little benefits due to the phase-outs. This is really part of a broader problem...
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Economic Policy Institute guide on the benefits of the minimum wage and effects of an increase, FAQ, and database of related news articles.
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Keisha Walker, for one, is happy that Congress is at least debating whether to raise the minimum wage. For her, boosting it to $7.25 would mean earning an extra $1 an hour - enough to pay for eight months of groceries or perhaps a few nights out.
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"Decades of research show that increasing the minimum wage creates job loss for low-skill employees while providing the majority of benefits to non- poor individuals who are not raising a family on a single minimum wage income," Garthwaite said.
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