Besides, most American households, even those with two wage earners, now suffer from depressed median incomes.
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Class warriors eagerly compare the relative performance of wage earners in various income brackets over time.
Holland has three years left on his contract and is one of Ipswich's highest wage earners.
"When wage earners lose confidence, it has ripple effects throughout the economy, " Holland said.
Committee documents say the surcharge would affect only the top 1.2% of wage earners.
This view misses how low wage earners contribute to the economy and government budgets.
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And that infamous 75% tax on the highest wage earners in France alluded to in the press?
The net result is that most wage earners should be seeing more money in their paychecks this year.
For many wage earners, the cost of maintaining their mini-imperial courts can put a severe strain on family finances.
Is Congress doing anything to lighten the load on consumers and wage earners?
At all three companies, and at Merck, women account for more than 30% of the top 10 wage earners.
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While many are low-wage earners, there is a large community of executives, mainly bankers in Europe and North America.
Most of the victims of the Thane collapse were poor daily wage earners working at the site, and their families.
Most minimum wage earners are not in poverty, yet their employment opportunities are impaired as well as those who are.
After inflation wage earners are losing ground while shareholders are buying Coach and Louis Vuitton stuff at Bloomies and Nordstroms.
The program was financed by a payroll tax of 2.9% on all wage earners, half paid by employee, half by employer.
The principle is that affluent Americans should pay the same -- at least the same tax rate as middle American wage earners.
So while UK docs may get paid less than US docs, they are still in the top 1% of UK wage earners.
The actual figures for minimum wage earners (for 2010) are here.
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"A tax structure in which wage earners, pensioners and a small percentage of companies bear the overwhelming burden is not sustainable, " he says.
And yes, it means that wage earners who are paying their fair share are ponying up more to compensate for the tax cheats out there.
And some of them are running canteens for daily wage earners.
Form 433-A, Collection Information Statement for Wage Earners and Self-Employed Individuals.
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Those in favor of a chained CPI argue that the current index, which considers the spending habits of urban wage earners and clerical workers, is outdated.
As of early 2012, about 70% of the 1.4 million minimum wage earners in the U.S. are full-time workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Rates have to go up for wage earners, even as we absolutely, essentially, must sign into law tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people.
With the Bush-era tax cuts due to expire Dec. 31, the president forced Republicans to accept a hefty tax hike on the top 2% of wage earners.
Not included in the agreement is an extension of the payroll cut meaning that payroll taxes will rise by for 2 percent for all American wage earners.
As talks continue, House Speaker John Boehner has signaled that he might be willing to compromise on raising tax rates but only for top wage earners.
Census Bureau stats show that the percentage of pay collected by the middle 60% of wage earners dipped to 46% in 2005 from 52% in both 1965 and 1975.
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