Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have minimum wages above the federal level, and 10 states index their minimum wage to inflation to automatically rise with the cost of living.
The removal of sanctions would likely lead to a massive influx of foreign money, which at minimum could push up inflation, Mr. Maung Maung Win said, though he added that the government should be able to contain such a problem with close monitoring.
Also troubling is France, where the minimum wage is indexed to inflation.
The Alternative Minimum Tax will be adjusted for inflation.
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It was interesting yesterday, that in the six states where voters had a chance to raise the minimum wage and link it to inflation so it'll rise automatically every year, they overwhelmingly approved it.
The Associated Press released a story this afternoon that quotes Mitt Romney renewing his support for hiking the federal minimum wage, to keep pace with inflation.
Modern day minimum wage earners have less buying power than minimum wage earners in 1968, and they are increasingly losing more buying power while the current minimum wage fails to keep pace with inflation.
Inflation and a rise in the minimum wage had bumped up care home owners' costs still further.
Either would blow a huge hole in next year's budget, already stretched because of a promised inflation-busting hike to the minimum wage and linked social-security spending.
BRC's director-general, says that costs are rising, too, thanks to inflation-busting increases in the minimum wage, intense competition for store sites and the same high fuel bills that have been troubling the shoppers.
The federal minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation, but CEO pay has risen 725% over the last 30 years and 80% of all real income growth has gone to the richest 1% of Americans.
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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Government supporters said it would be "nigh on impossible" to negotiate a budget reduction given the lack of support among other EU nations and urged MPs to back Mr Cameron's call for an inflation-linked rise as the minimum acceptable outcome.
By creating inflation, the Fed effectively lowers the minimum wage.
At a recent graduation ceremony for 2, 000 adults who just learned how to read, Lula touted booming exports, five million more jobs and low inflation that stretches the value of the minimum wage.
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) will be permanently adjusted for inflation.
The alternative minimum tax, a perennial issue, will be permanently adjusted for inflation.
Unemployment insurance would be extended for a year for for 2 million people, and the alternative minimum tax -- a perennial issue -- would be permanently adjusted for inflation.
"While we are pleased that government has rejected the siren calls of some employers to freeze the minimum wage for adult workers and apprentices, these increases are still far below inflation and will leave the lowest paid facing a real terms cut, " said the TUC.
The solution is a "dual-index" mortgage, in which the principal balance is indexed to inflation, and payments are indexed to Mexico's government-decreed minimum wage.
Suppose a high minimum wage, by pressing on the structure of pay differentials, raises wage growth and hence inflation across the economy.
As the AP notes, Congress passed the first minimum wage law in 1938 and has voted for raises since, but has never linked it to inflation.
Ten states have announced an increase in their minimum wage effective January 1, mostly because their legislation requires an adjustment to the Consumer Price Index inflation measure.
It also suggests that the Alternative Minimum Tax--which threatens to ensnare millions of middle-income households--be indexed to inflation.
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The bill would include an extension of a provision to protect millions of middle-class Americans from paying the Alternative Minimum tax, a levy initially designed to affect only the wealthiest Americans but that was not indexed for inflation.
We have to raise the minimum wage and make sure it's not every 10 years, but it's keeping pace with inflation.
The minimum wage (the floor for state pensions) is going up by 11% this month, more than inflation (though less than the 30% demanded by some of Mr Cardoso's allies).
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