Minimum Wage Increase to Become Reality
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After a decade-long wait, America's lowest-paid workers saw Congress poised Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage by $2.10
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"The minimum wage is on its way, for everybody. I am sure of this"  German Labour Minister Olaf Scholz has pledged that the country will implement a minimum wage in all sectors, an issue that has been dividing the ruling coalition, a newspaper reported on Sunday. via Raw Story
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The simplest thing you can do to pay less and earn more.
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The incoming Democratic-led U.S. Congress intends to give a hand to dishwashers, fast-food cooks and America's other poorest-paid workers by raising the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade.
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Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to fast-track efforts to boost the federal minimum wage and could seek to bring a bill directly to the House floor in January.
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Payments to Social Security recipients and most federal retirees will increase 2.3 percent in January. It is the smallest cost-of-living adjustment since 2003, reflecting a lower rate of inflation.
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I am surprised that David Barnes ("Boost skills, not wage base," Readers' Forum, Sept. 20) knows of no one who stays at, or right around, minimum wage, considering that he is from Logan, where many university students are exploited for cheap labor.
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LAKE PLACID, NY The minimum wage may be on its way up in New York, but one new study says the amount wouldn&#39;t be enough to pay rent in the state.
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The minimum wage rate has increased, but many people in the UK do not get the right amount for their work.
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As the Senate moved toward passage of the first increase in the minimum wage in 10 years, Democrats in the House and Senate were trying to reconcile differences between their two bills.
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About 1.8 million federal employees would receive a 1.7 percent increase in their basic pay and a 0.5 percent average increase in their locality pay next year under a plan that President Bush sent to Congress yesterday, administration officials said.
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Saturday ushered in plenty of change, from pets' inheritance to hikes in minimum wage.
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The Democratic-led U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade and provide billions of dollars in small-business tax cuts to help offset the cost.
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The Democratsâ proposed minimum wage increase does not catch up with what some states have already done to raise the pay of tens of millions of workers.
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House Republican leaders, giving in to political reality, plan a vote to raise the $5.15 minimum wage before leaving Washington this weekend for a five-week recess.
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There are ways to secure higher pay even when all other employees receive the same annual increase, says Sue Shellenbarger. Plus, more on work and family.
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Take steps now to escape the Alternative Minimum Tax.