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The article reviews the book "The Economics of Legal Minimum Wages," edited by Simon Rottenberg.

The article reviews the book "More Than Subsistence: Minimum Wages for the Working Poor," by By Sar A. Levitan and Richard S. Belous.

The article reviews the book "Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage," by David Card and Alan B. Krueger.

The article reviews the book "The Minimum Wage in the Restaurant Industry," by William T. Alpert.

The good news is that we can readily address many of the factors that have driven deaths of despair among the white working class as identified by Case and Deaton. Life expectancy in the USA has fallen in recent years, dramatically reversing a nearly 100-year streak of continuously rising longevity. The life expectancy decline is uniquely American, unseen in other wealthy countries and concentrated almost entirely among the white working class. [Extracted from the article]

Arindrajit Dube of University of Massachusetts Amherst reviews 'Minimum Wages' by David Neumark and William L. Wascher. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins 'Presents an overview of the evidence on the economic effects of minimum wages. Discusses the history of the minimum wage in the United States; the effects of minimum wages on employment; minimum wage effects on the distribution of wages and earnings; the effects of minimum wages on the distribution of incomes; the effects of minimum wages on skills; the effects of minimum wages on prices and profits; and the political economy of minimum wages. Neumark is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine. Wascher is Associate Director in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. Index.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Basic Income Guarantee: Ensuring Progress and Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century," by Charles Michael Andres Clark.

Reviews the book "Migrant Workers and Minimum Wages: Regulating the Exploitation of Agricultural Labor in the United States," by Marc Linder.

A review of the book "The Minimum Wage & Labor Market Outcomes," by Christopher Flinn is presented.

A review of the book "The Minimum Wage & Labor Market Outcomes," by Christopher Flinn is presented.

Reviews the book "The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing Policy Models," by Oren M. Levin-Waldman.

The article reviews the book "Minimum Wages in Central and Eastern Europe: From Protection to Destitution," edited by Guy Standing and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

Reviews the book 'Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage,' by David Card and Alan Krueger.

The article reviews the book "A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain" by Sheila Blackburn.

The article reviews the book "Minimum Wages," by David Neumark and William L. Wascher.

Reviews the book 'The Politics of the Minimum Wage,' by Jerold Waltman.