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- Migrant Workers in Israel: A contemporary form of slavery
- Report in PDF format on the condition of foreign workers in Israel. [PDF]
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- Migrants.Net
- Resources for migrant workers from the Mission for Filipino Migrant Workers Society in Hong Kong.
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- The Human Rights of Migrant Workers
- Background information from the People's Movement for Human Rights Education.
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- Does an Increase in the Minimum Wage Result in a Higher Unemployment Rate?
- Article discussing the employment effects of the minimum wage, with a long list of annotated links to other arguments pro and con.
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- Ignoring Economics
- An article arguing that the minimum wage is partly responsible for unemployment among not only African-American youth but also violent young French Muslims as well.
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- Livable Wage Legislation
- From Vermont's livable wage campaign, lots of information about the economics and politics of raising the state's minimum wage.
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- Minimum Wage Causes Maximum Pain
- Essay concerning the origin of the minimum wage and its negative impact on women, minorities, and unskilled workers.
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- Minimum Wage Escalation
- Examines legislation that would automatically escalate the minimum wage based on earnings elsewhere in the economy.
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- Minimum Wage and Fairness
- Mackinac Center study arguing against the minimum wage, by Michael LaFaive.
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- The Minimum Wage: Washingtons Perennial Myth
- From 1988, a popular analysis of the economic, social, and political reasons not to raise the minimum wage.
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- U.S. Minimum Wage History
- Three charts showing changes in the minimum wage, its value, and its relationship to the poverty level over the last several decades.
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- Wikipedia - Minimum Wage
- Crowd-sourced encyclopedia article about the history and effects of minimum wage laws worldwide.
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- American Anti-Slavery Group
- Monitors, documents, publicizes modern-day slavery and works with former victims of human trafficking to abolish this practice, focusing primarily on systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania.
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- Free the Slaves - Abolish Modern Slavery
- The Center of the Modern American Abolitionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.
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- Polaris Project
- This organization works on all forms of human trafficking and serves victims of slavery and human trafficking.
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- Stop the Traffik
- Global coalition working together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime. Special focus on children as activists.
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- American Institute for Full Employment
- Works to develop the concepts needed to achieve full employment in America and to do so in a fashion that will utilize and enhance free enterprise and minimize or eliminate governmental involvement or influence.