Pay Raise Proposed by Bush Would Be Smallest in 18 Years
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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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House tax writers will consider more than $1.5 billion in small business tax cuts next week in hopes of freeing minimum wage legislation currently stuck in an impasses between the House and Senate.
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The increase in first-time jobless claims last week was slightly smaller than the 18,000 increase that Wall Street had expected. But a Labor Department statistician said the gain wasn&#39;t unusual
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Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said in a report yesterday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall in coming years and that delaying reforms is not fair to younger workers.
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President Bush will propose squeezing substantial savings next year from domestic programs, giving them less than the 2.3 percent increase they would need to keep pace with inflation, the White House budget director said Thursday.
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PEORIA, Illinois  - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he plans to submit a budget proposal for fiscal 2008 next week that would help the government balance its budget by 2012 while still keeping taxes low.
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President Bush on Friday announced a set of modest proposals to deal with an alarming rise in mortgage defaults that have contributed to turbulent financial markets over recent weeks.
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Health care providers would see their reimbursement rates from the federal government go up less in coming years when they care for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget.
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Yielding to Republican demands that the first minimum wage hike in a decade be coupled with tax cuts for small businesses, the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives is preparing a $1 billion tax package, a senior Democrat said on Wednesday.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with small business tax cuts and limits on corporate pay that could complicate its path to become law.
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A $1.3 billion small-business tax cut package aimed at winning the first minimum wage increase in more than a decade advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday.
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When Democrats blasted Republicans last fall for taking annual congressional pay raises while blocking numerous attempts to raise the minimum wage, it was an effective campaign tactic. Democrats vowed not to accept the annual cost-of-living hike until Congress increases the minimum wage.
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The House of Representatives on  Saturday voted to gradually increase the federal minimum wage  to $7.25 an hour and also to cut estate taxes paid mostly by  the wealthy.
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President Bush has made his ambitious proposal to revamp Social Security a priority for his second term. This is the first part of an occasional series exploring the retirement
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A Democratic campaign promise to boost the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade moved closer to completion on Tuesday when U.S. Senate Republicans lifted a roadblock against it.
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President Bush proposed $56 billion in Education Department funding, level with his proposal for the current fiscal year but 3 percent less than what Democrats are expected to approve for this year. He also sought about $1 billion in new spending related to the landmark No Child Left Behind law.