The federal minimum-wage law has always served a symbolic purpose beyond setting a specific number.
On the other side, we have the minimum-wage workers, who are getting a 20% increase in income.
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Of course, many American households struggle to survive on minimum-wage jobs with employers who do them few favours.
Perhaps for that reason, Drucker rarely, if ever, expressed disapproval of minimum-wage statutes.
It means somebody who has got a minimum-wage job is paying 10 percent.
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Iowa Democrats plan to push through a minimum-wage hike that Republicans had stymied.
Ten states saw minimum-wage increases at the beginning of this year, all but one due to an automatic cost-of-living bump.
Although several states already have higher minimum-wage pay levels in place, the national rate sets the base for many low-wage workers.
Strikingly higher minimum-wage edicts have become the rage in emerging nations, with Thailand extending its hike to the rural regions.
Thus, contrary to the claims of minimum-wage proponents, the government does not increase opportunities for low-skilled workers by increasing the minimum wage.
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Employers treat them as independent contractors not covered by federal minimum-wage legislation.
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Now Ford has its eyes set on another humble product, one usually murdered by the millions when minimum-wage teenagers get the lawnmowers out.
No mere dismissal, "Cryin' for the Queen" keeps dropping hints about moderation and the minimum-wage scenarios awaiting her if she squanders her success.
John Edwards, Mr Kerry's running-mate in 2004, has been telling local Democratic caucuses that they should embrace the minimum-wage issue as a sure winner.
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Changing internships from the exposure-audition model to a minimum-wage model may serve labor activists, but it won't serve ambitious college students or the companies seeking them.
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Knowing financial markets might tumble on the news, the Senate reassured them by approving a much-needed new bankruptcy law on the same day as the minimum-wage vote.
It has had some success in getting people into low-skill, minimum-wage jobs, but has a long way to go before it makes a mark on the region.
"A hundred and twenty bucks is a lot, especially for minimum-wage people, " said April Steen, 28, a Lansing nurse who said potholes had bent her rims three times.
Ms. Hesseltine got the idea for using touch-screen technology to eliminate most or all of her minimum-wage customer-service staff after seeing a nearby juice business do something similar.
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Women represent nearly two-thirds of minimum-wage workers, while black and Hispanic workers represent a higher share of the minimum-wage workforce than whites, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
At least 12 states are considering minimum-wage increases this year.
And then, beginning in the eighteen-nineties, the Supreme Court struck down an entire docket of Progressive legislation, including child-labor laws, unionization laws, minimum-wage laws, and the progressive income tax.
Along with repealing minimum-wage laws Congress can lighten the load by repealing all payroll taxes on both employees and employers for anyone making less than the current minimum wage.
Obama stumped Wednesday in support of his minimum-wage plan, his calls for a manufacturing revival and his other State of the Union proposals in a trip to Ashville, N.
Minimum-wage rises are wildly popular on the left but, like the gay-marriage debate in reverse, the issue does not seem to turn off opponents as intensely as it attracts supporters.
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But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.
An internship isn't a substitute for minimum-wage work.
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Instead they want to raise the minimum wage, a market-meddle whose costs are debated, but which few would prescribe as the most efficient route to helping the poor particularly since not all minimum-wage workers are poor.
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Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
Minimum-wage campaigns can galvanize progressive groups to turn out at the polls or lobby elected officials, but they tend to have a more difficult time gaining traction among employers in a stagnate economy, economic analysts said.
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