Worldwide wikimedia maps, charts, graphs, etc.:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Minimum_wage

Wikipedia articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Minimum_wage and

Minimum wages worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Worldwide_minimum_wages

Eurostat. Minimum wages and pay. Many nations.
pageid=1553,2193416,1553_2386661&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL and
reference/sdds/en/earncost/miniwages_base.htm and
ITY_OFFPUB/KS-NK-04-010/EN/KS-NK-04-010-EN.PDF and
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat and
q=site%3Aepp.eurostat.cec.eu.int+minimum+wage+OR+pay

Minimum wages web page is mirrored at these links:
https://corporatism.tripod.com/pay.htm and
https://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/pay.htm

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Detailed state-by-state list with some cities. Current and projected rates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_minimum_wages

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More detailed timeline of federal minimum wages:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/chart.htm

***Person quoted is being replied to.

Still clueless after all these years?

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*** "How easy it is to pretend you are generous when spending someone else money."

Yeah, the bosses that pretend they are being generous paying the minimum wage when their money comes from the efforts of their laborers. Yeah, the bosses who act like entrepreneurs when they make business investments oftentimes paid for out of their inheritance.

*** "People who have everything given to them attach no value to the gifts. You just have to step on to any reserve to know what I mean there. Give a kid a bicycle and see how fast it falls apart."

Yup. Inherited wealth.

*** "Pretty soon the kept people are belly-aching that they don't get enough support to keep them in a lifestyle that would be the envy of any third world resident."

Yup. Wannabes who wish they had inherited wealth, and people who actually have inherited wealth. Oh how the rich and the corporate welfare receivers whine.

It is not complicated. A good economy does not depend on privileged elitist Libertarian whiners, nor on privileged Communist Party member whiners.

A good economy depends on money being paid to the poor and middle class through strong unions demanding high wages and reasonable minimum wages. Also on progressive taxation that makes the privileged pay more than those less privileged.

As long as the money is recycled the economy rolls on strong. And as long as the government gets as little of that money as possible. Excepting single-payer privatized universal healthcare of course.

Trickle-up economics works a lot better than whiny trickle-down economics.

When the NDP stops giving the money to the government, and when the Conservatives stop giving the money to the rich, then progress will be made.

A union of the NDP and the Greens (such as Jim Harris) might actually best accomplish that goal. If the egos of the leaders could get out of the way. They could forge a progressive party just as big as the relatively-new Conservative Party coalition.

The only problem with the NDP is that they don't want to cut total taxes as a percentage of the economy. They want to maintain the status quo.

But that is better than the Conservatives who want to make people poorer. As in the USA where middle-class wages are no longer keeping up with inflation.

The NDP increases middle class wages.

The Conservatives rob the middle class. All while whining every step of the way.

The whiners versus the workers.

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