Questions - Minimum Wage - December 5-6, 2013

National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted December 5-6, 2013
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How closely have you followed recent news reports about the minimum wage?

2* Is the minimum wage intended to be a wage someone can live on?

3* Do you favor or oppose raising the minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 an hour?

4* (Asked of 565 adults who favor raising the minimum wage) Several proposals have been made for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour. Do you favor raising the hourly minimum wage to $8.25, $10.10, $11.50 or $15?

5*Will raising the hourly minimum wage help or hurt the economy? Or will it have no impact?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence