Editing Minimum wage (section)

=== Wage subsidies ===
Some economists such as [[Scott Sumner]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=10232|title=TheMoneyIllusion " You can't redistribute income . . |last=Sumner|first=Scott|website=www.themoneyillusion.com|access-date=11 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811222858/http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=10232|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref> and [[Edmund Phelps]]<ref>Phelps, Edmund S. "Low-wage employment subsidies versus the welfare state." ''The American Economic Review'' 84.2 (1994): 54–58.</ref> advocate a wage subsidy program. A wage subsidy is a payment made by a government for work people do. It is based either on an hourly basis or by income earned.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/wage-subsidy-better-way-help-poor-7778.html|title=The Wage Subsidy: A Better Way to Help the Poor {{!}} Manhattan Institute|date=25 September 2015|work=Manhattan Institute|access-date=11 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811230231/https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/wage-subsidy-better-way-help-poor-7778.html|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2015/08/19/wage-subsidies-are-better-than-raising-the-minimum-wage|title=A Better Wage Hike|last=Cass|first=Oren|date=19 August 2015|website=US NEWS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150820110346/http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2015/08/19/wage-subsidies-are-better-than-raising-the-minimum-wage|archive-date=20 August 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref> Wage subsidies lack political support from either major [[political parties in the United States|political party]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/wage-subsidies.html|title=Noahpinion: Wage subsidies|last=Smith|first=Noah|date=7 December 2013|website=Noahpinion|access-date=11 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811224635/http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/wage-subsidies.html|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/wage-subsidies-might-be-good-idea-republicans-will-never-support-it/|title=Wage subsidies might be a good idea, but Republicans will never support it|last=Drum|first=Kevin|date=3 December 2013|work=Mother Jones|access-date=11 August 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811224733/https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/12/wage-subsidies-might-be-good-idea-republicans-will-never-support-it/|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>