Republicans clear way for minimum-wage rise
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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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Federal employees would receive a 3.5 percent pay raise next year under a bill approved by a key House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday.
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At first, legislation to raise the minimum wage loomed as a clean, quick triumph for Democrats eager to celebrate their new majority in Congress. Two months later, it stands as an early lesson in the limits of their power.
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Nomey Druskin, manager of the Rainbow Hair Designers at the White Flint Mall, employs six shampooers. Mostly Hispanic immigrants, they are paid at the low end of the wage scale. Druskin should be particularly interested in the Democrats' intention to raise the minimum wage when they take over Congress, right?...
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House leaders have added legislation raising the federal minimum wage to an emergency spending bill for the Iraq war. They hope to break a logjam with the Senate over the wage bill, a top Democratic priority that was once seen on Capitol Hill as a relatively easy compromise.
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Republicans are moving ahead with efforts to extend three popular middle class tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of this year and they have added a collection of expiring tax breaks for businesses to the package as well.
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In an election-year bid to polish their credentials as fiscal conservatives in an election year, Senate Republicans on Tuesday advanced a bill designed to force cuts in the spiraling growth of federal benefit programs while also reviving the line-item veto.
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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 measure would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 in three stages over two years.
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The Spanish government has reached an agreement with unions and employers to raise the minimum monthly wage by 4.5 percent to euro512.90 (&#36;699) on Jan. 1, news reports said Tuesday.
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At their national convention, Republicans were short on specifics on how to pay for an economic agenda in a second Bush administration. One reason is that President Bush could end up having to back a tax increase, just as his father did.
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Republican hopes to advance a more conservative agenda in the Legislature picked up steam with key victories Tuesday in Arizona&#39;s handful of competitive districts.
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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 adjustment until Congress increases the minimum wage.
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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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In a sharp change from just two months ago, Republicans are gaining a commanding position in the race for control of the US House and Senate.
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The Senate voted 94-3 Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage in three steps from $5.15 to $7.25 in a bill that also gives $8 billion worth of tax cuts to small business.
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Handing New York workers their first boost in the minimum wage since 1997, the state Senate yesterday overrode Gov. George Pataki&#39;s veto of a bill that will increase the wage by $2 over the next two years.