Also, just to point out, the article is somewhat misleading, as the increase would also benefit those making over the current minimum wage, but less than the proposed. (Perhaps the article addresses this later on, in a hurry)
Found these numbers from the website of the Economic Policy Institute. Although they claim to be a non-partisan group, if you go view their annual report (from 2001 - 2002), it begins talking about the founding of the group, and in doing so seems to take a couple of shots at the Reagan administration and conservatives in general. So, after seeing this and reading further, I'd have to say "non-partisan" doesn't provide a true representation of their policy, so I'm not sure how reliable these numbers are. Would be interesting to see, but most of the "facts" I've found on this subject seem to have some sort of slant to them, one way or the other. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issuebriefs_ib149 http://www.epinet.org/epi_ar_2001-02.pdf
