While the firm's clearly stated minimum helps cut down on queries from unqualified investors, it doesn't eliminate them.
Instead of creating jobs, in-work benefits combined with a minimum wage would merely give firms an incentive to cut pay to the minimum.
Republicans dug in on their proposals to accelerate tax cuts passed into law last year and cut corporate minimum taxes.
There will be a 20% cut in the minimum wage but annual bonus holiday payments in the private sector may escape.
As well as boosting demand, these schemes have helped to raise standards (because beneficiaries must reach minimum entry requirements) and cut drop-out rates.
In the Senate early in the morning, late at night, Ted Kennedy fought and cut deals for minimum wage increases, health care, education, immigration reform, and help for the poor, the elderly and the sick.
The latest round of belt tightening, which amounts to roughly 7% of Greek GDP over three years, includes layoffs of as many as 15, 000 state employees, a 22% cut in the minimum wage and pension reductions.
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While the risk of stagflation is still a long-term phenomenon, inelastic demand curves for food and energy products could force market participants to feel the sting of rising headline inflation and thus cut back to minimum spending.
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When it needed to cut costs to cope with a strong yen a few years ago, the Japanese firm acknowledged Chrysler's prowess by taking apart a little Neon car to see how the Americans had cut components to a minimum and designed for low-cost and simplicity.
Many western countries want to reduce their armed forces anyway, and raising the minimum age is a painless way to cut.
However, two points from Tyrone youngster Jason McAnulla and a score from Crossmaglen talent Jamie Clarke cut the lead to the minimum.
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Mr Soar said employees whose jobs were to be cut would be offered above minimum redundancy packages and a chance to apply for jobs elsewhere in the Condor Group.
Its three main subsidiaries, which produce the oil and also hold most of Yukos's cash, could keep running for a while even with the parent company disabled, but not indefinitely: they have already cut investments to a bare minimum.
The navy's fleet of destroyers and frigates was cut to 25, about the minimum that is currently imaginable.
We have done a short sale on our home, cut our budgets back to bare minimum, have relinquished all luxuries in our life but, yet still get up each day with the hope of something better.
Even the minority of the workforce who benefit from an increase in the minimum wage are thus likely to suffer a painful cut in purchasing power.
Sub Bryan Sheehan cut Monaghan's lead to the minimum in the 65th minute and the same player levelled the contest with two minutes of normal time left.
The minimum number of signatures required to launch a referendum has been cut, but it is still a tenth of the electorate, on average.
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Other elements central to the negotiation that would impact middle income earners, mainly the extension of Bush era tax cuts for incomes below the border, patching the alternative minimum tax, and the potential loss in the payroll tax cut, suggest that the economic situation of the middle class as a result of the fiscal reorganization will remain the status quo at best.
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Clearly, as Mr McCartney says, a minimum wage would limit the ability of employers to do this, and cut the bill for in-work benefits.
Another thing Washington should do but is currently incapable of doing is to substantially cut individual and corporate income tax rates and eliminate the alternative minimum tax.
Some 85% preferred a cut in the sales tax, and 72% a rise in the minimum wage.
The minimum requirement is sure to rise over time, even if Fannie and Freddie are cut some slack until markets stabilise.
Someone working in Derby on the minimum wage for a full working week, will have seen their income tax bill cut in half under this government.
You cut your utility budgets to the bone in order to keep electricity bills at a minimum.
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The Labour party won power in Southampton in May, vowing to reverse a pay cut for staff imposed by the previous Conservative administration and keep job losses to a minimum.
The Labour party won power in Southampton last May, vowing to reverse a pay cut for staff imposed by the previous Conservative administration and keep job losses to a minimum.
On the tax side, Romney promises to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, then cut individual rates by 20 percent across the board, repeal the estate tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax, and repeal the tax hikes in the 2010 health law.
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Ms Bennett argued that more manufacturing and food production had to take place in the UK to cut the transport of goods around the world, while the railways had to be renationalised and the minimum wage had to be a "living wage".
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