The federal minimum-wage law has always served a symbolic purpose beyond setting a specific number.
Of the roughly 210, 000 inmates in federal prison, 55.3% (116, 130) are in low or minimum-security prisons.
On the other side, we have the minimum-wage workers, who are getting a 20% increase in income.
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For example, about a hundred convicts from a minimum-security facility fanned out among orchards in the Wenatchee Valley.
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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.
Former prisoner Stephen Richards says he knew convicts who had escaped from their minimum-security prison in Kansas in the 1980s.
Next, I realized that our world headquarters was surrounded by barbed wire, which made it look like a minimum-security prison.
Ten states saw minimum-wage increases at the beginning of this year, all but one due to an automatic cost-of-living bump.
Our interviews took place in the canteen of the minimum-security prison, a place of cheap plastic-topped tables and bare wooden walls.
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.
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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So anyway, I served my time, and since the sentencing judge took mercy on me, I served my time at the minimum-security prison up at Holyoke.
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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During the course of the program, Adrian will try and keep costs to a minimum - flying Economy, staying in a budget hotel and using public transport.
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.
Whitacre spent almost all of his prison time in minimum-security camps and was released in 2006 to a halfway house after serving 8 and half years in prison.
"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.
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.
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