Even above $5.15, workers struggle in South
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CONYERS, Georgia  - Just because you earn a bit above minimum wage doesn't mean you're not one step away from financial ruin, according to people on low wages in two U.S. states.
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Despite ongoing hardships, the retailer shows glimmers of opportunity.
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By Priscilla Frulla, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--About $1.3 billion in contracts were signed in 2006 for the construction of projects in South Mississippi, more than double 2005.
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The auto parts retailer struggles through a difficult second quarter.
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A proposal to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Laveen, the area&#39;s first south of the Rio Salado, has drawn the ire of labor groups, but local leaders call the project needed and the cornerstone to good growth in the area.
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NEW YORK -- Barely two years ago, Cristina Rodriguez and her three children were moored on the wrong side of the income gap. A high school dropout, she was making a little more than $200 a week, stapling price tags to shirts and boxing them at a Modell's warehouse. "I didn't use my mouth, didn't use my mind; I only used my hands. I was always going to be broke," she said....
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As productivity abroad rises, US manufacturing is competing by trimming workers and wages.
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A minimum-wage paycheck falls well short of what many Tri-State residents need to cover rent, according to a study released Monday by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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Thousands of workers are not being paid the national minimum wage, a survey by the TUC has found.
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The measure would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 in three stages over two years.
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Businesses in China are having a hard time finding able-bodied workers and are having to pay the workers they can find more money.
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One out of every four working American families earns wages so low they struggle to survive financially, according to a report due out today.
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Lawmakers are pushing to expand the U.S. guest worker program, but labor experts say workers suffer abuses.
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WASHINGTON -- A new report indicates that one in every five US jobs pays less than a poverty-level wage for a family of four. As a result, nearly 39 million Americans, including 20 million children, are members
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Normally at this time of the year, labor contractor Jose Luis Avalos would be assembling a crew of workers who could each earn &#36;1,500 to &#36;2,000 a week in the area's abundant citrus groves.
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Workers at three tire plants, including one in Indiana, had been without deal for 15 months. PITTSBURGH -- More than 3,000 union workers at three BF Goodrich tire manufacturing plants in Indiana and Alabama
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Their compensation has outpaced inflation for five years, prompting demands for oversight, disclosure.