Eight million people in the United States are working at or below the hourly $5.15 federal minimum wage.

• Read outrageous facts about the minimum wage.
• Sens. Kennedy, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have released a report on the minimum wage, Their Fair Share: Creating a Just Economy for Minimum Wage Families (PDF).
• AFL-CIO Now blog: Go for a Real Minimum Wage Bill, Not Phony Republican Bills.
• Read about what isn't a raise in the minimum wage.
• Check out a chart on the minimum wage from 1938 to today from the U.S. Department of Labor website.
• Americans support an increase in the minimum wage: Polls show a broad cross section of Americans support a minimum wage increase.
• Get more information at the AFL-CIO Facts & Stats database.

• Download a handbook on the minimum wage (PDF).
• Economic Policy Institute Minimum Wage Issue Guide.
• Learn about the Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign.
• Books: Get Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich’s account of going undercover as an "unskilled" worker, The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 35 Million Americans and more at The Union Shop Online.™