Issue 265: May/June 2006

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features

• Ripple Effects of Raising the Minimum Wage

  Jeannette Wicks-Lim

  Which workers, and how many, benefit from new minimum and living wage laws?

• Gender Responsive Budgeting

  Jane Midgley

  Assessing the impact of government budgets on women and girls

• Legalizing Human Trafficking

  Basav Sen

  WTO negotiations threaten to worsen the lot of migrant workers worldwide.

the regulars

• the short run
• letters Feedback on our Katrina issue
• obituary John Kenneth Galbraith
• active culture Prison phones / San Francisco housing victory
• comment Corporate social responsibility: An insider's view
• making sense The globalization clock
• primer Class and economics
• economy in numbers Immigrants and the labor market (pdf)