Current minimum wage: $10.50 New minimum wage: $11 Current minimum wage: Large employers, $11; small employers, $10.50 New minimum wage: Large employers, $12; small employers, $11 Current minimum wage: $10.20 New minimum wage: $123 Current minimum wage: $10 New minimum wage: $11 Current minimum wage: $11 New minimum wage: $12 Current minimum wage: $7.85 New minimum wage: $8.60 Current minimum wage: $10.40-$13 (depending on location and business size) New minimum wage: $11.10-$113 Current minimum wage: $11.50 New minimum wage: $12 Current minimum wage: $9.84 New minimum wage: $210.50 Current minimum wage: $210.78 New minimum wage: $29.25 Current minimum wage: $29.45 New minimum wage: in January, $210.50; in October, $212 Current minimum wage: $12.503 New minimum wage: $212.50 Current minimum wage: Large employers, $28.30; small employers, $28.55 New minimum wage: Large employers, $9.86; small employers, $8.04 Current minimum wage: $8.30 New minimum wage: $8.50 Current minimum wage: $8.60 New minimum wage: $8.85 Current minimum wage: $8.303 New minimum wage: $10.50 Current minimum wage: $8.85 New minimum wage: $9.10 Current minimum wage: $10.50 New minimum wage: $10.78 Current minimum wage: $9.25 New minimum wage: $9.45 Current minimum wage: $10.50-$12 New minimum wage: $11-$12.50 Current minimum wage: $8.30 New minimum wage: $8.55
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Minimum wage Trump has had varying opinions on minimum wage.
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Minimum wage: He supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15.
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Minimum wage: $15 per hour Costco has already matched Amazon's minimum wage.
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Methodology: This analysis defines "minimum wage pressure" as the growth in the effective minimum wage — the average binding federal, state or local minimum wage received per hour of minimum wage work — over 12 months, weighted by the share of minimum wage work at the beginning of the 12-month period.
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Averaging across all of these federal, state and local minimum wage laws, the effective minimum wage in the United States — the average minimum wage binding each hour of minimum wage work — will be $21979 an hour in 232.
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The minimum wage: Biden backs a $15 minimum wage; Obama advocated for $10.
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BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER, ON MINIMUM WAGE, SAYS HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE MEANS FEWER JOBS
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Gravel wants to establish a $15 minimum wage, and eliminate the tipping minimum wage.
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"I would go from making a little above minimum wage to minimum wage," she said.
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Past efforts to raise minimum wage The minimum wage has been a hotly contested subject.
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The Economic Policy Institute's Minimum Wage Tracker monitors the minimum wage across states and cities.
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According to the study, those cities were: Minimum wage: $15.59 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 101% Minimum wage: $11.10 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 103% Minimum wage: $10.10 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 103% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 104% Minimum wage: $253 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 106% Minimum wage: $8.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 111% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 111% Minimum wage: $12 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 113% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 114% Minimum wage: $20193 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 116% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 121% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 124% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 125% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay:129% Minimum wage: $129 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 132% Minimum wage: $7.25 Rent as a percentage of take-home pay: 143% Of all of the cities ranked, Austin, Texas, is the least affordable city for low-wage earners.
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I support a minimum wage — a higher minimum wage — and laws forbidding racial discrimination in employment.
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Solution No. 2: Minimum wage Local minimum wage rules are no practical barrier to a deal.
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In effect, she is saying that the federal minimum wage should be a Southern minimum wage.
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If we want to raise the minimum wage, the solution is to raise the minimum wage.
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Through the Texas Minimum Wage Act, state law caps the minimum wage at the federal rate.
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The referendum would increase the state's minimum wage and eventually eliminate the tipped minimum wage altogether.
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Montana residents seem fairly content with the minimum wage in their state, with an average, ideal minimum wage of $8.85, only 55 cents higher than its actual minimum wage of $8.30.
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However, the majority of African Americans live in states where the minimum wage is $21625 and for some workers it is lower because they are not covered by the federal minimum wage and their state has either a lower minimum wage for them, or no minimum wage.
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But they're definitely negotiable — I'm for a $15 minimum wage, but if Mitch McConnell put a $13 minimum wage or a $16 minimum wage on the Senate floor, I'd vote for it.
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We're talking about an argument between a $12 minimum wage and a $15 minimum wage — and even now, most of the elected Democrats have gotten on board with the $15 minimum wage.
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Methodology: The effective minimum wage is the binding federal, state or local minimum wage weighted by the usual labor hours of minimum wage workers at nonfarm wage and salary jobs paid hourly.
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Minimum Wage Raising the minimum wage has become a focal point for progressives in the United States.
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Minimum wage: $11.87 Ikea raised its minimum wage across the US to $11.87 an hour in 2015.
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It set the minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour, instead of calculating it as a percentage of the federal minimum wage (at the time, the full minimum wage was $123).
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So a $15-per-hour minimum wage might have significantly different economic impacts than a $10 minimum wage.
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Minimum wage: In 2015, Biden called for a $12 federal minimum wage, gradually increasing to $15 by 2020.
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The state minimum wage in North Carolina is $7.25 an hour, the same as the federal minimum wage.
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Minimum wage: Voters in Arkansas and Missouri voted to hike the minimum wage to $11 and $12, respectively.
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MINIMUM WAGE: To immediately increase the minimum wage to about 12 euros from just over 9 euros now.
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Mankiw's discussion of the minimum wage, for instance, heavily emphasizes the idea that the minimum wage causes unemployment.
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It set the minimum wage for tipped workers at $215 an hour instead of calculating it as a percentage (half) of the federal minimum wage (at the time, the full minimum wage was $4.26).
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It set the minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour, instead of calculating it as a percentage (half) of the federal minimum wage (at the time, the full minimum wage was $20173).
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It set the minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour instead of calculating it as a percentage (half) of the federal minimum wage (at the time, the full minimum wage was $4.26).
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It set the minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour, instead of calculating it as a percentage (half) of the federal minimum wage (at the time, the full minimum wage was $4.26).
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The alliance won a far-reaching minimum wage law and a $15.37 minimum wage for L.A.'s hotel workers.
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Reality Check: Sanders on minimum wage By Lisa Rose, CNN Sanders said Trump wants to reduce the minimum wage.
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Go deeper: Minimum wage will go up in 20 states in 2019 The case for a higher minimum wage
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Minimum wage: Sanders co-sponsored a bill in April 2017 that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15.
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Ten states began 2019 with voter-backed minimum wage increases, joining 11 states that saw legislation to increase their minimum wage in 2018, and 12 states that raised the minimum wage through legislation the year prior.
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Currently, there are seven states, according to the institute, that have no minimum wage law or a minimum wage that is below the federal minimum wage (so the federal minimum of $7.25 applies in those states).
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The Fair Shot Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 215 will increase the minimum wage to $215 an hour by 22021.
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Both measures call for raising the federal sub-minimum wage for tipped workers from $2.13 to the full minimum wage.
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After all, raising the minimum wage is a "women's issue," since women represent about two-thirds of minimum-wage workers.
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In Illinois, where the statewide minimum wage is just $8.25, Chicago has had a higher local minimum wage since 2014.
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However, there are 29 states (along with Washington, D.C.) that have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage.
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Liberals and leftists generally back a higher minimum wage, while the GOP tends not to support any minimum wage increase.
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For example, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, while the federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 per hour.
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Another slows a previously planned minimum wage hike, which was set to also raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.
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When was the last time you saw a panel discussing the minimum wage include a person actually making minimum wage?
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When my salary rose higher than minimum wage, I kept on living the minimum-wage lifestyle of my early 20s.
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Roughly two thirds of minimum wage workers are women, so when you raise the minimum wage, you're raising women's wages.
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Under the Raise the Wage Act, the federal minimum wage increases would roll out on a gradual schedule: In addition to raising the minimum wage, the legislation would also eliminate the separate minimum wage standard for tipped employees.
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The movement for a $15 minimum wage may ultimately leave Wal-Mart with no choice but to raise its minimum wage.
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Pay at least the minimum wage Second, all workers deserve decent pay and all companies should meet state minimum wage requirements.
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Minimum wage: Puzder is a critic of raising the federal minimum wage from its pathetically low level of $85033 per hour.
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Those who stayed at the minimum wage and those who stayed below the minimum wage did not see the same improvements.
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If you can pay sub-minimum wage for a job that would otherwise pay minimum wage you can make more money.
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Minimum wage In November, Trump said the current $22019-an-hour minimum wage is too high and was slowing job growth.
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But most states have a two-tiered minimum wage system, where tipped workers have a lower minimum wage than nontipped workers.
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Clinton has endorsed a $12 minimum wage, while Sanders pushes a $18.53 minimum wage, like the one recently passed in California.
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Results from Seattle's minimum wage ordinance mirror Gusto's findings — employee turnover declined as a result of the city's minimum wage increase.
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The settlement will benefit 38,000 California low- or minimum-wage cooks and cashiers The settlement will benefit 38,000 California low- or minimum-wage cooks and cashiers The settlement will benefit 38,000 California low- or minimum-wage cooks and cashiers The settlement will benefit 38,000 California low- or minimum-wage cooks and cashiers America is changing fast!
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As it stands now, five states don't even have a minimum wage, and 16 explicitly peg theirs to the federal minimum wage.
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Since the federal minimum wage is not fixed to inflation, the buying power of a minimum wage paycheck has been dramatically falling.
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The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 per hour, more than five dollars less per hour than the standard federal minimum wage.
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The National Minimum Wage Act sets South Africa's minimum wage at 20 rand ($1.45) an hour, equal to 3,500 rand per month.
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Minimum wage Ms. Chao, in her tenure as secretary of labor in the George W. Bush administration, opposed raising the minimum wage.
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Raising minimum wage could hurt workers, some argue But opponents of raising the minimum wage say the result could be fewer jobs.
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Democratic presidential candidates have largely supported a $15 minimum wage, although proposals differ about how to implement a higher federal minimum wage.
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In Seattle, a minimum-wage increase from $11 to $13 resulted in reduced hours worked and reduced payrolls for minimum-wage earners.
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She also wants to raise the minimum wage — New Hampshire currently does not have a state minimum wage, but goes by the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour — and focus on ways to attract more young people to New Hampshire.
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Lyft and Juno are not rejecting a minimum wage law, but rather, they're concerned with how the city chose the minimum wage figure.
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He believes that states should have the right to lower the minimum wage or even abolish the concept of the minimum wage altogether.
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After the Minimum Wage Administration did indeed raise the minimum wage,home needlework employment again fell by over 2900 percent on the island.
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The prevailing argument in favor of raising the minimum wage is that a higher minimum wage would reduce poverty and alleviate income inequality.
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Employers in 43 states are allowed to pay workers below the federal minimum wage if they earn the full minimum wage counting tips.
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Despite the Grand Canyon State's relatively high minimum wage ($2.75 above the federal minimum wage), relocating isn't necessarily in a worker's best interest.
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There are minimum wage and slightly above minimum wage workers within the Hollywood system who also need help elevating their voices, Schaffer noted.
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What a high school diploma will earn you in the work place is minimum wage, and minimum wage keeps you restricted in poverty.
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Six in 10 small business owners (60%) in states without minimum wage increases say they expect no impact to their business, because of changes to minimum wage laws in 53, while 54% of those in states with minimum wage increases say the same.
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Rival retailer Target Corp raised its minimum wage to $210 in September, and said it would raise its minimum wage to $22.7 by 214.50.
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Similarly, 87% of survey respondents affected by minimum wage hikes said that they increased wages for workers who made more than the minimum wage.
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A minimum hourly wage of $11 is higher than the minimum wage in 48 states and matches the minimum wage in Massachusetts and Washington.
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The minimum wage will drop from $10 to $7.70 when a Missouri law goes into effect next month and overrides the city's minimum wage.
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She told CNN that Cuomo opposed a minimum wage hike to $85033 a few months before he came to embrace a $15 minimum wage.
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Scott is using California's new $15 minimum wage law as his main argument to attract business to Florida, where the minimum wage is $8.05.
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The Federal Minimum Affects Only a Small Share of Minimum Wage Workers Minimum wage laws above the federal level used to be the exception.
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With a minimum wage that condemns full-time workers to poverty, it is easy to see why most Americans support raising the minimum wage.
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And while most minimum-wage research focuses on teenagers, this study looks at the influence raising the minimum wage has on many other populations.
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Republicans are forcing St. Louis to lower the minimum wage it just raised Republicans are forcing St. Louis to lower the minimum wage it just raised Across the country, cities have been increasing the minimum wage toward levels full-time workers can actually live on.
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To measure where a minimum wage might have the most impact on employment, economists use the relative minimum wage — its ratio to the median wage.
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Amazon on Tuesday announced plans to raise the company's minimum wage in the US to $15 — more than twice the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
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This legislation increases the minimum wage by 2020, forcing small businesses to consider cutting minimum- wage jobs and raising prices on their goods and services.
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The food service industry is harder hit by state and local minimum wage increases because it employs more minimum wage workers than any other occupation.
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Additionally, those surveyed felt, on average, the federal minimum wage should be $11.56 per hour — $4.31 more than the current, federal minimum wage of $7.25.
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Currently, in Wyoming, the minimum wage is $2669, but on average, survey respondents in that state said an ideal minimum wage double that, at $250.
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In October, Amazon announced that it would raise its minimum wage to $15 and begin lobbying the federal government to raise the national minimum wage.
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For example, both Washington and Oregon have recently enacted statewide minimum wage increases, with Seattle having passed the highest minimum wage increase in the country.
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Voters in two red states approve minimum wage hikes: Voters in two red states -- Arkansas and Missouri -- approved ballot measures to raise the minimum wage.
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As president, I will work with Congress to end the shameful sub-minimum wage and pass a $15 minimum wage that applies to everyone equally.
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The House passed a bill in August that would raise the tipped minimum wage to meet the standard minimum wage (it's unlikely to pass the Senate).
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If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.
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"The best way" to defeat an increase in the minimum wage, he says, "is to not talk about the minimum wage" and instead change the subject.
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Minimum wage Attempts by the Obama administration to increase the federal minimum wage from its current level of $2628 an hour have been blocked in Congress.
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And the effectiveness of minimum wage hikes in reducing poverty is strongly contested anyway, not least because many minimum-wage earners are not from poor households.
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Gillespie opposes Northam's call to raise Virginia's minimum wage, despite the fact that he used to argue that states, not Congress, should handle the minimum wage.
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In Seattle, the city's rising minimum wage decreased earnings for affected workers by $125 per month; in San Francisco, the minimum wage increase closed numerous businesses.
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A $13 minimum wage may seem exorbitant compared with the federal minimum wage of $7.50, but most workers in Seattle were already earning more than that.
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Liberals also speak about politics as a negotiation: By pushing for a $15 minimum wage, you might have a better chance at a $12 minimum wage.
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Furthermore, the $13 minimum wage is fairly high by historical standards, and it's entirely possible that Seattle might indeed be hitting that harmful minimum wage ceiling.
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Washington's increase would have the least impact, since its minimum wage is already $9.47 and its largest city, Seattle, passed $225 minimum wage legislation in 265.
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For many college students who work minimum-wage jobs, a rise in the national minimum wage would help with expenses that are left to college students.
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The Raise the Wage Act would be the biggest federal minimum wage increase in history, and it would additionally peg future minimum wage increases to inflation.
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The federal minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2009, according to the Economic Policy Institute, but many states and localities have passed their own legislation to raise their own minimum wage requirements, and a slew of states have upcoming minimum wage increases slated to roll out.
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Seattle is at the center of a giant pissing match about minimum wage Seattle is at the center of a giant pissing match about minimum wage Last week, we told you that a new academic paper showed Seattle's experiment with a $133 minimum wage is working.
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Walmart and Target's new minimum wage levels exceed the state minimum wage in all but three states, according to a research note from financial services firm BTIG.
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And while the new minimum wage is more than twice the federal minimum wage of $215, the new total is nowhere near what Bezos makes an hour.
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California's current $10-per-hour minimum wage is already among the highest in the country — only Washington, DC, has a higher minimum wage at $53 per hour.
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The U.S. senator from Texas told CNBC that a higher minimum wage would cost U.S. jobs and that setting minimum wage should be left up to states.
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READ: Bernie and Hillary: The toughest call Minimum wage debate The heated debate also exposed tensions on the issue of income inequality -- specifically, raising the minimum wage.
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Cambodia's new minimum wage is $153, more than double the $64 minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh, the world's second-biggest exporter of garments after China.
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"Going from a $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage to a $15 an hour minimum wage is, at best, a foolish policy proposal," committee ranking member Rep.
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Raising the minimum wageClinton has called for a $12 minimum wage and for ending the tipped minimum wage, which has been at $2.13 an hour since 1991.
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It's far too low, and as you probably know, women — who are two-thirds of minimum wage earners — are much more impacted by the low minimum wage.
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Critics of the sub-minimum wage say too many employers don't keep track of workers' tips to make sure they're at least earning the full minimum wage.
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Minimum wage Two measures in two states proposed increasing the minimum wage to $11 by the year 2021 in Arkansas, and to $12 by 2023 in Missouri.
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In 220006, Seattle Democrats raised the city's minimum wage for large employers to $2202 an hour — 2628 percent higher than the statewide minimum wage at the time.
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Given the low elasticity (responsiveness) of employment to the size of the minimum wage increase, economists have begun to explore other outcomes of raising the minimum wage.
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Minimum wage: New York City fast-food workers and employees of businesses with 2628 or more workers are now entitled to a $28503 an hour minimum wage.
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Today&aposs federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but in 1972, the federal minimum wage was equivalent to $19.33 an hour today when adjusted for inflation.
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We conducted tests to check that our minimum wage comparisons were not contaminated by other changes that took place before or after each of the minimum wage increases.
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Minimum wage Sanders, in a separate interview with Tapper aired Sunday, said he was "amused" by Clinton's support for raising the minimum wage to $15 in some states.
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Reality Check: Clinton's minimum wage position By Lisa Rose, CNN Henrietta Ivey, a home care worker from Detroit, praised Clinton as an advocate for a higher minimum wage.
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Four states (Arizona, Colorado, Maine and Washington state) will vote on increasing the minimum wage (another, South Dakota, will seek to roll back its minimum wage for minors).
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Minimum Wage: Johnson's yearly salary from a Loop-based nonprofit comes out to about $230 per hour, or three dollars more than the city's current hourly minimum wage.
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Aside from abolishing the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, the bill will close a loophole that let employers pay some disabled workers less than the minimum wage.
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Georgia yielded a similar result: while that state has a current minimum wage of $234, survey respondents from Georgia, on average, said $10.71 is the ideal minimum wage.
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While the federal minimum wage has been inching up over the last few decades, the federal minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $227 since 27.
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Through the 1975 increase in the minimum wage under President Nixon, House Republicans had overwhelmingly voted for minimum wage increases (except the vote in 1961 under President Kennedy).
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Sanders also pushed for Walmart — the company he has most fiercely targeted since Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 last year — to implement the same minimum wage.
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For Americans living in the 22.3 states where the federal minimum wage is binding, inflation means that the minimum wage has lost 22013 percent of its purchasing power.
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The New York Times itself opined in a 1987 editorial, "The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00," that the minimum wage prices the working poor out of the job market.
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Consider the centerpiece of Democrats' wage-raising package: A 2202 percent increase in the federal minimum wage to $2628 — double the inflation-adjusted historical minimum wage of $28500.
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Raising the minimum wage has also become a policy adopted by equal pay groups because women — and women of color particularly — are disproportionately the ones making minimum wage.
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Royal Caribbean is incorporated in Liberia, where the minimum wage is $2000 to $403 per day, Carnival in Panama, where the minimum wage ranges from $240 to $24 per hour, and Norwegian in Bermuda, where there is currently no minimum wage (although one will be implemented starting in May 2227).
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Royal Caribbean is incorporated in Liberia, where the minimum wage is $2000 to $22016 per day, Carnival in Panama, where the minimum wage ranges from $43 to $24 per hour, and Norwegian in Bermuda, where there is currently no minimum wage (although one will be implemented starting in May 2227).
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While minimum wage hikes appear to have lifted pay for numerous workers, Strain notes that assessing the effects of a $15 per hour minimum wage, specifically, is still difficult.
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The federal minimum wage of $7.25 hasn't been raised since 2009 — the longest stretch without an increase since the federal minimum wage law was first enacted eight decades ago.
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If this ballot measure, dubbed Initiative 23, is passed, the tipped minimum wage would gradually be phased out until all DC workers have the same minimum wage by 2026.
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Nineteen states and even more cities raised their minimum wage in the new year, including Ocasio-Cortez's New York, which now has a minimum wage of $15 an hour.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration has estimated that a $15 minimum wage across the state would bring its economy $15.7 billion per year in additional spending by minimum wage earners.
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But there is some recent research on local minimum wage hikes that challenges the long-held view that a higher minimum wage leads to fewer total low-wage jobs.
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In recent years, some cities and states have taken steps to increase local minimum wage statutes, there are still 21 states where the minimum wage remains frozen at $0003.
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In 2015, he called for McDonald's to raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour, when the company announced they would pay $1 more than the required minimum wage.
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Local minimum wage raises allows cities and counties with higher costs of living to set the minimum wage at a level that is closer to livable in their area.
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Washington, D.C. will reach a $85033 minimum wage by 2020 while California's $15 minimum wage will go into effect in 2022, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Minimum wage doublers love to bring up this 1993 study demonstrating the positive effects of an increased minimum wage (along with a follow up ten years down the line).
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The Democratic caucus has been divided on whether to advance a $2628 minimum wage bill or one that would provide for regional differences to create a tiered minimum wage.
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His opponent, Hillary Clinton, has called for a $12 federal minimum wage, but has said she supports efforts in some cities and states to pass a $15 minimum wage.
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Minimum wage increases have a significant impact on the wage bill of firms reliant on minimum-wage workers in industries like services and transport, where margins are already tight.
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The real value of the federal minimum wage has eroded significantly, declining nearly 2628 percent since 28500-- when the purchasing power of the minimum wage was at its highest.
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The authority's current minimum wage is $10.45 an hour, but workers at the New York airports earn at least $13 an hour because of the state's minimum wage laws.
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In low-cost places, like Valdosta, Ga., the minimum wage would climb to $9.25, or 15 percent below the $10.90 national average minimum wage that workers in Flagstaff, Ariz.
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In 274 of the 225 cities where the minimum wage to median rent ratio is the highest, minimum wage is less than $22019 per hour, according to the study.
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The facts show that a low minimum wage results in "corporate welfare" for big businesses, as their employees who make the minimum wage qualify for food stamps and welfare.
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Once the city increased minimum wage to $6900 an hour, lawmakers in Jefferson City rushed through a bill stripping cities of their right to set their own minimum wage.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will increase the minimum wage by 15.03% in 2020, for a monthly net minimum wage of 2,325 Turkish lira ($392), the labor minister said on Thursday.
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Democrats in Congress introduced a bill in 2017 that would have raised the federal minimum wage and phased out the tipped minimum wage, but it didn't get enough support.
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Nineteen states are raising their minimum wage in 2017—and that means a renewal of the debate on whether or not a higher minimum wage actually benefits or harms workers.
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Walmart (WMT) raised its minimum wage to $11 an hour last year, and CEO Doug McMillion hinted last week that Walmart will raise its minimum wage "floor" in the future.
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And among those paid hourly, half of them in the South -- where there are almost no higher-than-federal minimum wage laws -- made at or below the federal minimum wage.
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We focus on the Bay Area because it has been a testbed for minimum wage increases, which allows us to cleanly identify the impact of minimum wage on local businesses.
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After months of mounting political pressure, Amazon announced on Tuesday that it would set a new company minimum wage of $15 per hour, more than doubling the federal minimum wage.
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In recent years, some cities and states have taken steps to increase local minimum wage statutes, but there are still 21 states where the minimum wage remains frozen at $7.25.
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Here are the estimated effects of hiking the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, according to CBO projections: Democrats have tried for years to raise the federal minimum wage.
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More evidence that America's minimum wage could be much higher: Seattle has one of the highest minimum wage rates in the country, and new research finds it hasn't destroyed jobs.
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The company raised its minimum wage for hourly employees to $11 an hour in January, its third minimum wage increase since 2005, after benefiting from the corporate tax cut plan.
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But Trump's message on minimum wage was inconsistent, at times indicating he would support an increase in the minimum wage and at other times suggesting workers make too much money.
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We can have a minimum wage which is a living wage, and I'm delighted to see that you know, right now, five states already passed $15 an hour minimum wage.
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An increase in the minimum wage at the start of 220 adds to the risk of inadequate reserving because death and disability compensation is directly linked to the minimum wage.
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Read more: NYC's $15 minimum wage hasn't brought the restaurant apocalypse — it's helped them thriveThe report counters business leaders and economists' predictions that raising the minimum wage would decrease jobs.
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In August, Cisneros pointed out that Cuellar had recently voted in favor of a $15 minimum wage, despite having never supported a minimum wage increase before she entered the race.
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Increasing minimum wage has emerged as a prominent issue in the 2020 presidential race, with many Democratic candidates proposing an increase of the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15.
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A Congressional Budget Office report from 22019, based on a review of 60 different minimum wage studies, showed that a federal minimum wage increase to $10.10 would kill 500,000 jobs.
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As always, the more local you can get with data (comparing state minimum wage, city minimum wage, and county to county in a particular state) the clearer the picture becomes.
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By contrast, highly rated restaurants appear to be largely unaffected by minimum-wage increases, and over all, there is no substantial rise in restaurant closings after a minimum-wage increase.
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Read more: Amazon will raise workers' minimum wage to $15 an hour, more than twice the federal minimum — here's how many people in each state make minimum wage or less
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Denver leaders reportedly plan to push for a $15-per-hour minimum wage, which would make the city one of the first in Colorado with its own minimum wage law.
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Venezuela just raised its minimum wage for the fifth time in a year Venezuela just raised its minimum wage for the fifth time in a year Venezuela's minimum wage shot up by 50 percent on Sunday, marking the fifth wage increase put into effect by President Nicolas Maduro in the past year.
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"The business case for raising the minimum wage from boosting consumer demand to reducing turnover to improving customer service, improving product quality and productivity — we see small businesses around the country supporting both enacted and proposed minimum-wage increases," said Alissa Barron-Menza, vice president at Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.
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As a $15 minimum wage becomes a rallying cry for presidential candidates and popular movements across the nation, House Democrats have yet to pass the minimum wage hike they campaigned on.
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The former Colorado governor outlined a plan Saturday to set a nationwide minimum wage floor at $15 per hour and permanently index the minimum wage to each area's cost of living.
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Jessica Davis, 27, who worked for years at minimum wage or near-minimum wage jobs, says she's had to work hard for every penny she's earned at these types of jobs.
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Despite the federal minimum wage stagnating at $7.25 for 10 years, a string of moves by states and cities recently has raised the effective minimum wage to almost $12 an hour.
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Washington, DC, where the minimum wage surcharge was implemented, has already raised its minimum wage from $10.50 to $12.50 this year and plans to further increase it to $15 by 2020.
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President Trump's stance on the minimum wage has wavered, as he has pressed for an hourly minimum wage more than $10 but also complained at times that wages are too high.
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It studies in particular the fast-food industry and its workers, on which economists who study the minimum wage often focus because the industry relies so heavily on minimum-wage labor.
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When you do the math, the Uber and Lyft minimum wage proposal pays less than what was achieved in New York City last year, and potentially less than California's minimum wage.
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And we have a lot of evidence on what minimum wage increases do, because we get a natural experiment every time a state raises its minimum wage but neighboring states don't.
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Clinton pledged to close it: When it comes to jobs, we've got to figure out how we get the minimum wage up and include people with disabilities in the minimum wage.
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And voters in Washington, DC, recently approved a measure to boost the minimum wage for tipped employees (who currently have a lower "tipped minimum wage" of $3.33 an hour, offset by the tips they earn) to the standard minimum wage — but some fear that diners will stop tipping when the wage change goes into effect.
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On Saturday, the government-mandated Minimum Wage Commission said the minimum wage will increase another 10.9 percent next year to 8,2.73 won ($7.40) an hour, after a 16 percent increase in 2018.
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At the federal level, the Raise the Wage Act would bring the national minimum wage up to $215 an hour and eliminate, over time, the tipped minimum wage—currently set at $22015.
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On Saturday, the government-mandated Minimum Wage Commission heightened concerns over the issue by announcing that next year the minimum wage will increase another 10.9 percent to 23.7,220 won ($29.3) an hour.
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"Though the minimum wage should be expanded and enforcement should be improved, the minimum wage hikes – by raising standards in the local labor market – have been good for workers in the city."
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In fact, in relative terms, it seems to be roughly as generous as the federal minimum wage in 1968, back before the value of the federal minimum wage was eroded by inflation.
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Building wealth on minimum wage Today's infographic is from InvestmentZen, and it explains that even though accumulating wealth while living on minimum wage is extremely difficult, it is possible with some adjustments.
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We bought into the argument that high-wealth locations like Seattle could easily absorb a $15 minimum wage, while rural Washington state might only be able to tolerate a $13.50 minimum wage.
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"Today, I'm starting the Minimum Wage Challenge, and I'm going to live on what that minimum wage salary would be, off food and travel, and see how difficult it is," Murphy said.
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And if an industry that's so reliant on minimum wage workers wasn't hurt by a minimum wage increase, how could the city as a whole have been hurt by higher minimum wages?
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She found that minimum wage increases usually translated to higher pay for nursing home staff — a 10 percent hike in the minimum wage raised their average pay by 1.2 to 1.7 percent.
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" Kanye was even light-years ahead of the minimum-wage-hike debate: "Before you ask me to go get a job today / Can I at least get a raise of the minimum wage?
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Fourteen states have since changed their minimum wage laws, two bills in Congress would do the same nationally, and all three Democratic presidential contenders have said they would raise the federal minimum wage.
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In Arizona, Colorado and Maine, the ballot proposition asks voters whether the minimum wage should be increased to $12, and in Washington state the proposition asks about raising the minimum wage to $13.50.
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Employers who pay the tipped minimum wage, which is lower than the standard minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, cannot pool tips and share them with non-tipped workers under federal wage law.
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Using a new study by The LIBRE Institute, we can take a closer look at how minimum wage hikes affect U.S. Hispanics, and decide whether proposed minimum wage hikes are worth the consequences.
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In Alabama, one of five states—all in the Deep South—without a minimum wage, the Republican legislature balked at efforts by Birmingham, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa to set a city-wide minimum wage.
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But even in those states, a minimum wage hike wouldn't hit every low-wage worker due to the myriad of exemptions to minimum wage coverage: restaurant workers receiving tips, trainees, agricultural workers, etc.
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The benefits of increases in the minimum wage are not targeted toward impoverished families and the costs of minimum wage increases deny youth the skills and experience they need to launch their careers.
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That's mostly because of a dollar bump in the minimum wage (now $12), which shrank the gap between the minimum wage and the cost of supporting a family of four ($30.68 an hour).
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When the CBO says a $10.10-an-hour minimum wage would cost about 500,000 jobs, it means relative to how many jobs there would have been had there been no minimum wage increase.
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Co-Owner Rebecca Hamilton thinks the federal minimum wage is "ridiculously low," so the lowest wage at her company is $15 an hour, more than double the $7.25 minimum wage in New Hampshire.
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Over the past five years, a wave of increases in state and local minimum-wage standards has pushed the average effective minimum wage in the United States to the highest level on record.
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On Thursday, Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $153 an hour by 2024, reflecting local laws that have raised the minimum wage in 19 states earlier this year.
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On Thursday, Senate Democrats introduced legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $22018 an hour by 2024, reflecting local laws that have raised the minimum wage in 19 states earlier this year.
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Second: Trump doesn't want to raise the national minimum wage.
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I was working at a coffee shop, making minimum wage.
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There is evidence that minimum wage laws have this effect.
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Yep, I think that we should raise the minimum wage.
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Almost all the Democratic candidates support a $215 minimum wage.
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That makes the high minimum wage all the more notable.
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To increase the minimum wage to over $10 an hour.
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The minimum wage amounts to less than $2 a month.
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Terri Sewell of Alabama, would calculate a minimum wage regionally.
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However, raising the minimum wage on its own isn't enough.
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By comparison, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
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He's not in favor of raising the minimum wage, either.
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And he says he's open to a minimum wage hike.
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Bernie Sanders about minimum wage, climate change, and labor unions.
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However, the federal minimum wage has remained stagnant since 2009.
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"She's fighting for minimum wage, affordable health care," Scott said.
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In London the minimum wage is not enough to survive.
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The federal minimum wage stands at $7.25 an hour. Gov.
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True, the minimum wage will rise by 5% in April.
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Companies should stop using these agreements for minimum wage employees.
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"So he's clearly been against the minimum wage," Brown said.
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STEVE SCHWARZMAN: So, you would advocate for higher minimum wage?
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That's higher than the minimum wage, but not by much.
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He cited taxation, regulations and minimum wage increases, among others.
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People working minimum wage jobs do not have those means.
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He's boosted his country's minimum wage four times this year.
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This year, 19 states had minimum wage hikes, effective Jan.
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By contrast the federal minimum wage is a blunt instrument.
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We had not had a raise in the minimum wage.
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I'm certainly grateful that I'm not making minimum wage anymore.
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The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009.
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John Hickenlooper: Hickenlooper supports raising the minimum wage to $15.
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One side: There are strong arguments against minimum wage increases.
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I think, too, the minimum wage needs to be raised.
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Puzder is also loud opponent of raising the minimum wage.
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The outgoing government has raised the minimum wage each year.
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They aren't entitled to overtime pay or a minimum wage.
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Trump's stance on raising the minimum wage is completely incoherent.
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My duties were primarily janitorial, and I earned minimum wage.
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That's $13.96 higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
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He has consistently opposed increases in the minimum wage, too.
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Nowhere is that truer than in the minimum wage debate.
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We need a higher minimum wage in the United States.
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The current U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
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Expect more talk and promises about raising the minimum wage.
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She favors a federal $22019 minimum wage, rather than $15.
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The government raised the minimum wage 40 percent on Jan.
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The national minimum wage has remained at $7.25 since 2009.
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I think the minimum wage systematically hurts the most vulnerable.
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Raising the minimum wage is a "winning issue," Fells said.
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In recent years Britain's minimum wage has become more generous.
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Just like raising the minimum wage is a family issue.
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Among the marchers' many demands: a $15 national minimum wage.
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The minimum wage for other workers in Oakland is $13.80.
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Critics say that raising the minimum wage has unintended consequences.
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The higher minimum wage would have helped to remedy this.
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His cashiers, who make minimum wage, have less to celebrate.
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Headlines John Lewis falls foul of minimum wage rules on.ft.
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If your state hasn't raised the minimum wage, do it.
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Minimum wage increases are broadly popular across all demographic groups.
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" Kennedy called instead for "a commonsense approach to minimum wage.
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Clinton has supported raising the federal minimum wage to $12.
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" He said he wouldn't support a federal minimum wage "floor.
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Raising the minimum wage used to be a bipartisan issue.
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Maudine Fall has spent her life working minimum wage jobs.
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Tlaib added that the $2628 minimum wage should be adjusted.
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Raising the minimum wage would provide a higher wage floor.
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Wells Fargo also is increasing its minimum wage to $15.
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Minimum wage hikes took effect in 28503 states on Jan.
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He ain't making minimum wage, and now he's making 600k.
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A minimum wage exemption would allow us to compete regionally.
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That is equivalent to nearly a year of minimum wage.
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The result is checked against the minimum wage in London.
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That mother of four working part time at minimum wage?
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Okay, we should raise minimum wage, but that's not why.
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The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is a starvation wage.
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That's why the current minimum wage is $0403 an hour.
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He has also expressed opposition to the federal minimum wage.
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At present the minimum wage is 2,13 zlotys a month.
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The House passed a $15 minimum wage bill in July.
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That's why the current minimum wage is $22014 an hour.
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The minimum wage would reach $6773 per hour in 2023.
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Second, raising the minimum wage likely causes some job losses.
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The minimum wage in New York City increased by $1.
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The economic effects of minimum wage hikes are hotly disputed.
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In my two terms, the minimum wage increased 50 percent.
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New Jersey's minimum wage is set to rise on Jan.
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Tipped workers, like restaurant employees, have a lower minimum wage.
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He said the state's minimum wage, $7.25, was woefully insufficient.
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It's like a minimum wage hike for the middle class.
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In addition, Congress should raise the minimum wage, he said.
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Second, the government can employ labour at a minimum wage.
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Two2019studiesalso associated raising the minimum wage with lower suicide rates.
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All told, 20 states raised their minimum wage on Jan.
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But the higher minimum wage hasn't done that at all.
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Yet the minimum wage in Oakland is just above $14.
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Others raised the minimum wage, and several legalized recreational marijuana.
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Turns out that minimum wage doesn't go all that far.
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You said you want to introduce a guaranteed minimum wage.
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The minimum wage in Bangladesh is 32 cents an hour.
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Giving up its fight against minimum wage hikes could help.
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It wouldn't hurt to boost the federal minimum wage, either.
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That's more than two weeks' work at Venezuela's minimum wage.
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Walmart is increasing its minimum wage to $85033 per hour.
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But dissatisfaction over the minimum wage bill could delay implementation.
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In West Virginia, the minimum wage is $8.75 an hour.
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Meanwhile the minimum wage has gone up, thanks to Trump.
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Jobs have disappeared because the minimum wage is too high.
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His parents made minimum wage at a seafood processing plant.
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How about raising the minimum wage to $216.6 per hour?
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That's why the current minimum wage is $8.50 an hour.
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By 27.25, the minimum wage will reach $12 per hour.
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Nearly all want to significantly raise the federal minimum wage.
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To increase the minimum wage to over $423 an hour.
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Amazon subsequently raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Fourteen states have a minimum wage of at least $10.
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In the Philippines, workers marched for a higher minimum wage.
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Yes, he's emphatically in favor of raising the minimum wage.
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Like my family's experience making ends meet on the minimum wage, I can show you data that says an increase in the minimum wage can result in fewer jobs at small businesses like mine.
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Birmingham's endangered minimum-wage law, for instance, is a huge breakthrough because it counters longstanding Southern hostility to minimum wages; Alabama, along with Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee, has no state minimum wage.
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Verdict: TRUE Reality Check: Clinton on minimum wage November 14, 2015 By Tami Luhby, CNN Money Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw her support behind a $12 hourly minimum wage at Saturday's debate.
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According to Indeed, Costco employees praised the company for its great culture and for paying new employees a minimum wage of $14 per hour, almost double the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
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But too many not only remain staunchly opposed to raising the minimum wage at the state level; they're also taking extreme measures to block cities and counties from raising their own local minimum wage.
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The first question, "Do you support or oppose increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour?" was intended to determine whether the respondent liked the broad policy change of hiking the minimum wage.
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In Ohio, Governor John Kasich signed a minimum wage preemption law to block a local minimum wage proposal in Cleveland that would have been placed on the ballot in a special election in 2017.
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Clinton said during a debate against Sanders that she would sign a $22019 minimum wage bill if she won the White House, which seemed to conflict with her support for a $12 minimum wage.
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Other companies lined up with their own announcements: Fifth Third Bancorp said it will also hand out employee bonuses and raise the minimum wage, while Wells Fargo announced it is raising its minimum wage.
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There is no state minimum wage in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina or Tennessee; if not for the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour, workers in those states would have no minimum-wage protection.
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Currently, employers are only required to pay a "tipped sub-minimum wage" — a pitiful $3.33 an hour — as long as when customers' tips are added, the workers receive at least the full minimum wage.
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That's why restaurant workers and their advocates have long called for eliminating the tipped minimum wage, making the full federal minimum wage apply to all workers, regardless of whether they make money in tips.
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They, too, insisted on getting a raise along with minimum-wage earners, and many of their labor contracts actually stipulated that they would get raises and bonuses based on changes to the minimum wage.
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Notably, small business owners in states with minimum wage increases are only slightly more likely than those in other states to say their business will be affected by a minimum wage increase in 2020.
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"A lot of counterarguments to raising the minimum wage are that, well if you raise the minimum wage, then maybe the unemployment rate goes up, particularly for people at lower-wage jobs," Kaufman said.
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"The greater the difference between the tipped minimum wage and the full minimum wage, the more likely it is that tipped workers will not earn enough in tips to earn the difference," they wrote.
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Interestingly, both the Democratic and Republican party platforms call for eliminating sub-minimum wage compensation to disabled workers (somewhat ironically so for the GOP, given that the party doesn't support a federal minimum wage).
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To find out how a $113 minimum wage might affect rural areas, researchers measured the gap between the minimum wage and the median wage in those areas if they had a $15 hourly pay floor.
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To find out how a $15 minimum wage might affect rural areas, researchers measured the gap between the minimum wage and the median wage in those areas if they had a $15 hourly pay floor.
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G.B.T. bathroom legislation bars cities and counties from enacting minimum wage, workplace discrimination and public accommodation laws that go farther than state law, which sets the minimum wage in North Carolina at $7.25 an hour.
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In 2009, the Department of Labor set the national minimum wage at $7.25 per hour but allows states to create their own minimum wage laws so long as they don't go below the federal limit.
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" Former CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder has long opposed federal minimum wage increases, saying in the past that "significant minimum wage increases will result in the loss of job opportunities for millions of young Americans.
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To find out how a $15 minimum wage might affect rural areas, researchers measured the gap between the minimum wage and the median wage in those areas if they had a $673 hourly pay floor.
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The libertarian magazine Reason greeted Seattle's $15-an-hour law with the headline "Seattle Prepares for Robot Revolution by Setting $15 Minimum Wage," and there's an entertaining Robots for a $15 Minimum Wage Facebook page.
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"We're seeing an unprecedented number of states, cities and counties raise the minimum wage," said Yannet Lathrop, a researcher and policy analyst with NELP, who authored the report on minimum wage increases across the country.
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Eventually, some enterprising young right-wing commentator will aggregate a few anecdotes together into a fact-free piece arguing that the minimum wage is killing the economy and we should eliminate a minimum wage entirely.
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State-of-the-art research examining the 137 most recent U.S. state minimum wage increases finds they have boosted pay without slowing job growth — confirming the findings of the bulk of modern minimum wage research.
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Walmart raised its minimum wage to $9 an hour in 2015.
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What if fixing the minimum wage to inflation brought other costs?
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Dramatic minimum wage increases have always brought fears of trade offs.
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They are entitled to the minimum wage and various other benefits.
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It was no minimum wage gig: Photographers made $45 per hour.
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She wasn't the picture often painted of the minimum wage earner.
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Its new minimum wage of $2000 an hour, which began Nov.
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The minimum wage, in addition to providing some workers with a
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She thinks a minimum wage hike could be a good idea.
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That includes better education, access to skills and minimum wage reform.
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Nearly everyone in the party wants to raise the minimum wage.
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For example, minimum wage just went up to $11 an hour.
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The federal minimum wage rose to its current level in 2009.
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But most employees will still receive the U.S. minimum wage there.
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Unlike self-employed people, they are entitled to the minimum wage.
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He banned fracking, and he raised the minimum wage to $15.
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The $15 minimum wage will take effect in California by 2022.
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The BE HEARD Act would also eliminate the tipped minimum wage.
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But for us, we already make far more than minimum wage.
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The restaurant industry employs a large portion of minimum wage workers.
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Walmart's minimum wage was set last year at $11 an hour.
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Minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour in Texas.
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Six states have approved laws phasing in a $15 minimum wage.
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Only the lowest pensions would be linked to the minimum wage.
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This spring, Democrats in Congress introduced a $15 minimum-wage bill.
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She also backs a higher minimum wage, albeit smaller than Labour's.
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But those regional minimum wage adjustments do seem to be helping.
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Harris said a $15 minimum wage was merely a starting point.
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"A minimum wage - that's a minimum standard of living," Harris said.
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We are going to raise the minimum wage on our own'?
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Why it matters: Minimum wage hikes work, and voters know it.
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Australia's minimum wage is A$672.70 for a 38 hour week.
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There's no better sign of that frustration than the minimum wage.
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Meanwhile four states consider ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage.
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Reality Check: Does Trump want to eliminate the federal minimum wage?
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The minimum wage will rise to $15 in California by 2020.
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Her job paid minimum wage, but it came with generous benefits.
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Just 7% of the province's workers earned the previous minimum wage.
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Britain introduced its minimum wage 20 years ago on April 1st.
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At present about 7% of workers are paid the minimum wage.
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And Costco hiked its minimum wage to $14 back in June.
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Washington's Initiative 1433: The minimum wage increases to $13.50 by 2020.
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The minimum wage is now worth less than $5 a month.
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Who is left fighting the case against a higher minimum wage?
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The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 per hour since 2009.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio: De Blasio supports a $15 minimum wage.
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The de facto minimum wage for Saudi citizens is 3,000 rials.
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That often exceeds Brazil's minimum wage of 880 reais per month.
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Last night Bernie Sanders upbraided Trump's position on the minimum wage.
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To put that in perspective, San Jose's minimum wage is $13.50.
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Read MoreLA union wants to be exempt from $15 minimum wage
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Clinton campaigned on a $5013 minimum wage, while Sanders supported $15.
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Families supported by minimum wage jobs are excluded from America's promise.
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Trumps says, no, $7.25, we should not raise the minimum wage.
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What jobs might disappear now if the minimum wage goes up?
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So, is an increase in the minimum wage a good thing?
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Target has promised an hourly minimum wage of $15 by 2020.
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However, the federal minimum wage remains unchanged at $7.25 an hour.
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He has proposed raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Minimum wage laws, transportation and general expenses also played a role.
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New York is also trying to increase the state minimum wage.
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She talked about profit-sharing and raising the federal minimum wage.
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But doing minimum wage is so controversial, it's the same thing.
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Raising the minimum wage would only make that harder for her.
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Because someone on minimum wage has to clean that up afterward.
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And you've announced your plans to move towards $15 minimum wage.
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Solutions will have to go far beyond raising the minimum wage.
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Even with the $15 minimum wage, he said 2015 revenue soared.
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Turkey allows refugees to work and be paid a minimum wage.
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Eighteen other states also prohibit local action on the minimum wage.
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Another bill struck down Kentucky's minimum wage on public works projects.
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Their disagreement on the minimum wage was another case in point.
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Donald Trump wants to get rid of the federal minimum wage.
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But they would not receive the minimum wage or unemployment insurance.
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As Thursday's vote showed, few Republicans want a $15 minimum wage.
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That minimum-wage job saved our house and saved our family.
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" "Why did a minimum wage job cover a family of three?
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Right now, minimum wage workers in Tucson earn $11 per hour.
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The vote was on a guaranteed income, not a minimum wage.
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Unions have also made headway pushing for higher minimum-wage laws.
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The minimum wage for each batch is currently set at $7.
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The subject of the minimum wage is a hotly debated matter.
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The minimum wage is intended to alleviate inequality and stabilize labor.
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The minimum wage "legitimizes the unequal apartheid wage structure," it added.
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The official minimum wage in Mexico is 73 pesos per day.
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Likewise, not all workers are subject to the federal minimum wage.
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That means a higher minimum wage, equal pay for equal work.
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Issues that relate to language about pensions and minimum wage, etc.
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Democratic candidates around the country ran on a $21625 minimum wage.
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That's why there's such strong support for raising the minimum wage.
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The bill also prevented local governments from raising the minimum wage.
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This would entitle them to benefits such as a minimum wage.
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A minimum wage would be introduced, it said, without giving details.
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That is half the minimum wage of an agricultural day laborer.
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The Fair Minimum Wage Act took us from $2023 to $7.25.
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Like Mr. Sanders, he has advocated for a $15 minimum wage.
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I would argue that a high minimum wage is an antidepressant.
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Pay starts at the company's minimum wage of $15 per hour.
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The American federal minimum wage hasn't gone up in a decade.
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Nobody really knows what Trump's position on *the minimum wage* is.
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If approved, the minimum wage will rise to $11 by 2021.
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Arkansas workers have wanted to raise the minimum wage for years.
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The current minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.
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It said Seattle's experiment with a $213 minimum wage isn't working.
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It said Seattle's experiment with a $13 minimum wage isn't working.
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Seattle-Tacoma International adopted a $15 minimum wage five years ago.
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Ms. Shirley supports Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage.
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Two other conservative states, Arkansas and Missouri, raised the minimum wage.
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They clean bathrooms for billionaires in Telluride for a minimum wage.
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That's barely above the minimum wage for a family of three.
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The national minimum wage has not been raised in a decade.
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They also endorse raising the minimum wage to $15 from $8.44.
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The average minimum-wage job now pays almost $12 an hour.
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It promises almost to double the minimum wage if re-elected.
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Democrats recently introduced a $15 minimum wage bill, backed by Sen.
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Will minimum wage have maximum impact on this year's election results?
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Eighteen states and 20 cities initiated minimum wage increases in 2018.
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In short, a minimum wage increase doesn't impact just minimum wages.
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"He's opposed every increase in the minimum wage," Mr. Trumka said.
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The workers were calling for a $15 per hour minimum wage.
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Employees receive basic guarantees like a minimum wage and overtime pay.
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We're going to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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And just to note, Nebraska's minimum wage is $9 an hour.
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Minimum wage for the following years has yet to be determined.
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Mr. Puzder has opposed expanding overtime and raising the minimum wage.
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New York State has been raising its minimum wage since 2016.
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That's nearly eight times as much as the federal minimum wage.
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The federal minimum wage has not been raised in a decade.
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Scott Walker, a Republican, has fiercely opposed raising the minimum wage.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has previously promised to review the minimum wage.
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The minimum wage in Peru is 850 soles ($252) a month.
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Michael Bennet, have supported raising the federal minimum wage to $15.
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Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour in October.
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Inmates received well below the minimum wage, if anything at all.
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Last year, San Francisco and Seattle enacted a $15 minimum wage.
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A carton of eggs costs more than the monthly minimum wage.
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Mexico is raising its minimum wage by 20 percent on Jan.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland's minimum wage is rising to $11 an hour.
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Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage.
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Each extra day costs more than a month of minimum wage.
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Not every disabled person is subjected to this lower minimum wage.
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Below are the 10 cities that are hardest to live in for minimum-wage earners, as well as how many hours of work would be required to afford typical monthly expenses in those places: * $5.15 is Georgia's state minimum wage, but most workers are covered under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and are subject to the federal minimum wage.
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Despite a September report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that found the minimum wage hike in New York State had no immediate discernible effect on job loss and recent research suggesting that raising the minimum wage by just $1 could lead to a drop in suicide rates, the federally mandated minimum wage hasn&apost budged in over a decade.
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Analysts say the latest increase in minimum wage doesn't come close to keeping up with the rate of inflation, meaning that it won't raise the minimum wage to a rate that's easy to actually live on.
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Warren supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour minimum wage for all workers, and in her plan proposes providing more overtime pay to millions of workers by expanding an Obama-era overtime rule.
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But years of economists' opposition to the policy have left us with a national minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, a level far too low to support the many families that depend on the minimum wage.
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Opponents of hiking the pay floor to that level — more than twice the current U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 that took effect in 2009 — argue it would cut positions for minimum wage workers amid higher costs.
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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, which would be the first minimum wage increase in a decade.
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In 1998, Britain passed the National Minimum Wage Act, which created a minimum wage of £3.60 ($7.35 in current U.S. dollars) and resulted in about a 30 percent raise for the typical worker below that threshold.
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And should we impose such a substantial cost on employers when most minimum-wage earners are very young and/or part-time employees, and when only about 0.4 percent of household heads earn the minimum wage?
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While minimum wage has been a hotly debated subject for years, including during the most recent presidential election, a new survey suggests that Americans do generally agree on one thing: The minimum wage should be raised.
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" Straughter, who spoke out in favor of St. Louis's short-lived $11 minimum wage in 2015, says she believes the fight to raise the minimum wage and the fight against right-to-work are "tremendously linked.
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In San Francisco, which passed a $15 minimum wage last year, trendy restaurants like Abbot's Cellar, Source, Luna Park, and Roosevelt Tamale Parlor have closed their doors, citing the minimum wage increase as a determining factor.
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Melwood went on to lead the fight to enact legislation in Maryland to eliminate the sub-minimum wage, which was successful in May 2016, making Maryland one of three states to outlaw the sub-minimum wage.
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The development comes as a wave of minimum wage increases at the state level sweeps the United States as the federal minimum wage has gone more than six years without an increase from $7.25 an hour.
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In addition, the bill would also phase out the $2628 minimum wage for tipped workers, meaning employers would eventually have to pay employees such as waiters the full minimum wage, though they could still collect tips.
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New legislation would raise the daily pay to $88.80, or $7.40 an hour, which is a minor increase from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour; but less than Colorado's minimum wage guideline of $12.00.
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Tips could be redistributed to non-tipped workers only if employers pay all their employees the regular minimum wage in their jurisdiction, as opposed to the lower minimum wage that most states allow for tipped workers.
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To help bring minimum wage more closely in line with the average cost of living, dozens of states and cities have independently increased their minimum wage to as much as $2115.45 starting on January 2115, 2114.
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New Jersey Democratic Governor-elect Phil Murphy, who'll take his post in 2018, campaigned on a $13-perhour minimum wage for the state, and there's political momentum behind a $15 minimum wage in several other states.
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It also has a smaller gap between the minimum wage ($7.25 an hour) and the cost of raising a family of four ($24.25 an hour), though it still takes three minimum-wage jobs to do that.
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One of the most prominent left-leaning economists in the minimum wage debate is Alan Krueger, co-author of a widely cited 1993 paper finding that a modest minimum wage hike in Pennsylvania didn't cost jobs.
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Similarly, the study blames the minimum wage increase for a decline in low-wage work in Seattle, when a likely cause is the city's strong economy in which competition, not the minimum wage, bids up pay.
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During the Democratic platform proceedings, the Sanders campaign was successful in including amendments to fight for a $15 an hour federal minimum wage; Clinton has supported a $12 federal minimum wage from the start of her campaign.
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Despite business and public support for increasing the minimum wage, the Trump administration's top economic adviser has said that even the concept of a federal minimum wage is a "terrible idea," as are state and local minimums.
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National momentum to raise the minimum wage has been building in recent years, largely from frustrations about federal inaction on the minimum wage, which remains $10.103, and growing income inequality in the wake of the Great Recession.
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He cited provisions exempting residents from new overtime protections and allowing minimum wage on the island to dip to $4.25 for a period of up to five years, far lower than the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25.
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Supporters of a higher minimum wage will gather this Wednesday to celebrate the 28500th anniversary of Myth and Measurement, a well-known and controversial text on minimum wage policy authored by economists David Card and Alan Krueger.
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With over half of minimum wage workers being aged 16-24, continuously raising the minimum wage simply guarantees that those young people, whose skills are not sufficient to justify that kind of wage, will instead remain unemployed.
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The proposed increase would raise the daily pay to $88.80, or $7.40 an hour, which is a minor increase from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour; but less than Colorado's minimum wage guideline of $12.00.
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The federal minimum wage was last increased in 2009, to $7.25 from $6.55; since then, American workers have gone longer without a federal increase than at any time since the minimum wage was introduced in the 1930s.
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The debate over the minimum wage, at least in economics, has so far focused monomaniacally on the effects on jobs: Does a higher minimum wage cost jobs for low-income people and do more harm than good?
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Donald Trump remarked that a low "minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country," while Ted Cruz voted against a minimum wage boost last year to prevent, he said, layoffs that would "crush" small businesses.
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Continuing work begun under earlier Conservative governments, he brought in Arindrajit Dube — a leading scholarly proponent of minimum wage increases clearly associated with the left in America — to consult on a plan to raise Britain's minimum wage.
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Although Lopez Obrador has doubled the minimum wage along the U.S. border, pay there remains lower than the minimum wage in Central American countries such as Guatemala and Honduras, from which many of the migrants are fleeing.
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Typically, she works three or four days a week, earning minimum wage.
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Reasonable people can disagree about the ideal level for the minimum wage.
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But minimum wage workers appear to have fared better than all employees.
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"The federal minimum wage of $2250 is a starvation wage," Sanders tweeted.
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So if the minimum wage gets too high, job losses are inevitable.
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Most economists say that modest minimum wage increases have not hurt employment.
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Our research examined 51 minimum wage increases since 2004 in 45 states.
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The $17.22 amount is the ridehailing equivalent of a $15 minimum wage.
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The fight for a $15 minimum wage has more momentum than ever.
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The national minimum wage in India is only about $210 a day.
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That means bread and butter issues like the minimum wage and healthcare.
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The federal minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 an hour since 153.
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But only 823 percent of those senators support a $282 minimum wage.
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Support for a $15 federal minimum wage has gone mainstream with Democrats.
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Politicians normally present increases in the minimum wage as better pie-slicing.
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Now the minimum wage hike, another top Democratic priority, has gotten stuck.
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The federal minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 per hour since 2009.
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In 1974, domestic workers were formally provided with federal minimum-wage benefits.
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And he isn't concerned about her call to boost the minimum wage.
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But there may be scope for stricter enforcement of the minimum wage.
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Andrew Cuomo calling for tipped workers to make the full minimum wage.
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How would firms react to a $12 federal minimum wage, for example?
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Rising rents and the possibility of a $15 minimum wage are looming.
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A higher minimum wage is important, but won't solve the housing crisis.
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It also depends on how large the minimum wage increases have been.
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Can large corporations afford a $215 minimum wage better than small businesses?
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It comes along with a proposed 22% increase in the minimum wage.
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I believe we should raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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The minimum wage at the national level right now is $29, right?
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I introduced legislation for $225 an hour minimum wage which is better.
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Living off $7.25 an hour, the current federal minimum wage, is hard.
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Dozens more have approved lesser increases from the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
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But that's not what a $15-an-hour minimum wage law does.
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Alabama is one of five states that have no state minimum wage.
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They are not entitled to the hourly minimum wage of £7.50 ($10.50).
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The average business can expect a minimum-wage inspection every 500 years.
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Walmart announced plans in January to raise its minimum wage to $11.
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San Francisco approved a $15 hourly minimum wage for workers in 2014.
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"Medicare for All"; and increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
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"I know she will fight to raise the minimum wage," Ivey said.
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He also proposed more than doubling the minimum wage to reduce crime.
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The risks of raising the minimum wage are lower in rich places.
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The company raised its minimum wage to $9 an hour in 2015.
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It would also phase out lower minimum wage paid to tipped workers.
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"Nobody can make it by themselves living on minimum wage," Davis says.
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Trump doesn't want to talk about infrastructure or raising the minimum wage.
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The House caucus has the priorities of health care, minimum wage, infrastructure.
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Waitstaff generally is guaranteed to make at least minimum wage, all in.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Tex.): O'Rourke supports raising the minimum wage to $15.
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Williamson supports closing the gender pay gap and increasing the minimum wage.
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Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.): She supports raising the minimum wage to $15.
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Mayor Wayne Messam: He increased minimum wage in the city of Miramar.
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"I think we're nuts not to raise the minimum wage," he said.
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We haven&apost had a federal minimum wage increase in nine years.
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" The minimum wage, she continues, is "a perpetual hot potato among politicians.
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The federal minimum wage has remained at $22020 an hour since 22020.
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How to pass and enforce a minimum wage law is well-understood.
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Minimum wage hike proponents have argued pay has not outpaced inflation enough.
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Nobody makes $2.13 an hour (minimum wage for employees who receive tips).
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Both are among the entirely predictable "unintended" consequences of minimum-wage laws.
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Higher prices aren't the only typical outcome of significant minimum-wage increases.
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Get rid of the federal minimum wage, leave it to the states.
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Minimum wage and universal health care weren't fodder for the campaign trail.
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The minimum wage fight, meanwhile, will only intensify into this election year.
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Wells Fargo will reportedly increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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California and Massachusetts currently have the highest statewide minimum wage at $10.
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Slightly more than 20153 percent of hourly employees earn the minimum wage.
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Minimum wage hikes take effect Saturday in various cities, counties and states.
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But in many ways, they've all been the same minimum wage job.
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More than one in four minimum wage workers are parents raising children.
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It's one reason why the minimum wage has stayed so low nationally.
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Public sentiment is overwhelmingly on the side of a minimum-wage increase.
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And just last Thursday, House Democrats passed a $15 minimum wage bill.
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She cloned Sanders' support of the $15 an hour federal minimum wage.
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The companies began complying with the new minimum wage after that ruling.
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Andrew Cuomo is pushing for a general minimum wage increase to $15.
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Do I think that under Clinton we will raise the minimum wage?
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For instance, he would like to raise the minimum wage, but can't.
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A good example of this includes calls to raise the minimum wage.
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His plan to increase minimum wage to $15 an hour shows that.
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Merkel says: we'll cut the pension age and introduce a minimum wage.
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Take the minimum wage, which employees but not contractors are entitled to.
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Trade unions know in which cities to sell a minimum-wage ordinance.
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One of the packages also would increase the minimum wage to $22019.
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On the minimum wage, the party has also lurched to the left.
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The new minimum wage is likely to cause some rise in unemployment.
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During a November debate, Trump voiced opposition to raising the minimum wage.
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In other words, minimum wage increases reduce jobs where they're needed most.
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Clinton supports raising the federal minimum wage to $12 over five years.
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"When you raise the minimum wage, there are consequences," French told Hill.
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A higher minimum wage is just one way, and a limited one.
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Some say they are already paying workers more than the minimum wage.
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Those affected include retirees, students, people on disability and minimum-wage workers.
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Consider that an estimate of the "cost" of a higher minimum wage.
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Clinton supports a federal minimum wage of $221 to $28 an hour.
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The $15 minimum wage was supposed to bring about the 'restaurant apocalypse.
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Deliveroo's riders are seeking to gain employment rights including the minimum wage.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) to institute a full minimum wage for tipped workers.
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City voters passed the initiative to raise the minimum wage in 2014.
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However, employees with disabilities can be exempt from the federal minimum wage.
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She has also rejected Macron's call for an EU-wide minimum wage.
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The current minimum wage has been in place since July of 220006.
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The D.C. minimum wage is scheduled to rise to $15 by 2020.
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We passed a statewide minimum-wage increase, the highest in the country.
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Also, companies raising minimum wage may be forced to do so anyway.
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They follow rises in the minimum wage across many states and municipalities.
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Last week Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoed a $15 minimum wage increase.
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She has resisted pressure to support a $15 federal minimum wage. Gov.
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Raising the minimum wage is not a panacea, as Governor Brown noted.
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Department of Labor issued a ruling that extended minimum wage and overtime
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Now I work minimum wage and I have to take food stamps.
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For example, many restaurateurs are scared of the pending $15 minimum wage.
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Clinton also supports raising the federal minimum wage to $12 from $7.25.
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Canada's minimum wage currently ranges from C$10.72 to C$13 provincially.
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Because of that, some argue there shouldn't be a required minimum wage.
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She wants to raise the minimum wage to twelve dollars an hour.
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People across the political spectrum support an increase in the minimum wage.
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California's minimum wage will rise to $10.50 an hour, up from $10.
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Others, like raising pay to the minimum wage, will come more gradually.
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Whitmer supports a $15 minimum wage, marijuana legalization and statewide universal preschool.
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These loopholes reveal the limited impact of raising the federal minimum wage.
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Republican orthodoxy is that minimum wage hikes will result in job losses.
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Some states, like Washington, are scaling the minimum wage by company size.
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The $15-per-hour minimum wage is catching on in Silicon Valley.
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Federally, the minimum wage has stood at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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Meanwhile, the four Democrats running against them support the minimum wage increase.
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The federal minimum wage rose to $7.25 an hour 230 years ago.
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New York City has a $21994 minimum wage, while in SeaTac, Wash.
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Reasons included a Canadian postal strike, minimum wage increases and store renovations.
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The overwhelming majority of these companies' drivers earn less than minimum wage.
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Go big on tax rates, income inequality, minimum wage, and student loans.
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"This is subject to applicable state minimum wage laws," the email added.
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Women comprise the majority of minimum wage earners in virtually every state.
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Earlier Kaczynski said both men had discussed minimum wage growth in private.
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It also wants to raise the minimum wage and hire police staff.
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There are widespread calls for a substantial increase in the minimum wage.
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Ms. Jordan promises to raise the minimum wage and fight climate change.
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Pedro Sanchez updated Spain's minimum wage by 22% from 2018 to 2019.
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It pays senior citizens a minimum wage to hold public service jobs.
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A MINIMUM WAGE is supposed to redistribute money from rich to poor.
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That means 21 states still have a minimum wage of only $7.25.
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"Typically, minimum wage changes have not been a huge thing," he said.
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The fast food chain is Senator Bernie Sanders' next minimum wage target.
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She had previously backed a federal minimum wage of $12 per hour.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the minimum wage in Bangladesh.
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Hyperinflation has cut the minimum wage to less than $2.50 a month.
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False: Bernie Sanders does not plan to tax minimum wage incomes 52%.
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Missouri Republicans haven't stopped at cutting the pay of minimum wage workers.
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In March 2019, the South Bend Tribune called for $12 minimum wage.
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She is committed to raising the minimum wage, and has always been.
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MEXICAN BILLIONAIRE CARLOS SLIM SAYS REDUCED INFLATION IS BENEFICIAL FOR MINIMUM WAGE
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At the start of 533, 19 states have increased the minimum wage.
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In January 2018, Walmart set its minimum wage at $11 an hour.
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Students earning the federal minimum wage can pay their way through school.
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The Minneapolis City Council just approved raising the minimum wage to $2202!
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It would also raise the minimum wage to £10 ($13) an hour.
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But no state has a $15 minimum wage, as Sanders has pushed.
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The minimum wage rise would only accelerate this, the chamber's head said.
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The current UK minimum wage for adults over 25 is £7.83 ($10.15).
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They were balanced with universal health care and a high minimum wage.
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But other results suggested that the minimum wage was having large effects.
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Thousands of people are trying to get by on the minimum wage.
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But all this is true about increases in the minimum wage, too.
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By 2026, the minimum wage will be the same for all workers.
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The tipped minimum wage in the state is currently $5 an hour.
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By 2026, the minimum wage would be the same for all workers.
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She's running on better broadband access and a higher minimum wage, too.
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He suggested they might consider enforcing a minimum wage for plasma sellers.
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That has dragged down the monthly minimum wage to a mere $4.30.
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Next year, House Democrats plan to push for a $15 minimum wage.
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In most states, restaurants can pay tipped workers below the minimum wage.
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She was working a minimum-wage retail job, without benefits or security.
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Just like minimum wage increases could have helped inflation-adjusted numbers in 2015 and 2016, major employers such as Amazon raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour could have ripple effects that will be positive for workers.
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Read: Jeff Bezos just caved to activists and Bernie Sanders and raised Amazon's minimum wage to $15 Bernie Sanders notched a progressive victory Tuesday by playing a role in securing a $15 minimum wage for all Amazon employees.
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Why it's happening: The federal government hasn't raised the minimum wage since 2009 from $7.25, which is putting pressure on states to do it themselves, and 27 states have had an effective minimum wage increase since January 2014.
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Voters in Washington, DC, narrowly approved Initiative 4463 on Tuesday, a ballot measure that would raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour and phases out the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, which is currently $3.33.
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"In a time of prosperity and high profit and high stock market, there's a demand to raise the minimum wage," said Michael Reich, a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies the minimum wage.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina set a monthly minimum wage of 8,060 Argentine pesos ($572.40), a 33 percent increase over the prior minimum wage of 6,060 pesos, for workers with an eight-hour workday, the government said on Thursday.
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OBAMA TELLS CONGRESS TO 'STEP UP' ON MINIMUM WAGE: President Obama on Monday praised two Democratic governors for hiking the minimum wage and bolstering paid leave in their states and called on Congress to do the same. Govs.
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Of course, it may be that the net result of raising the minimum wage is a good thing, but that doesn't change the fact that some people will be out of work if the minimum wage goes up.
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PIETRO ALLAR Forest Hills, Queens To the Editor: Those who support a higher minimum wage are wrongly assuming that everyone who is currently earning $9 per hour will be earning $15 per hour when the minimum wage increases.
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Though there are sound theoretical reasons why a modest hike in the minimum wage might not depress employment, most economists agree that if you set the minimum wage high enough, at some point you will start destroying jobs.
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Arindrajit Dube, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies the minimum wage, has pointed out that Seattle's new minimum wage is not all that lavish when you take into account the city's high overall wages.
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Wayne Morse, a Democrat from Oregon, proposed bringing the "moderately disabled" up to full minimum wage during a three-year transition period and that wages for the "severely disabled" be at least half of the federal minimum wage.
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Blanchette said that if the restaurant industry had been more open to discussing raising the federal minimum wage to $10 under the Obama administration, it could have avoided the current push for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
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The minimum wage increase also might have forced Pennsylvania employers to raise their wages in response, which could make Pennsylvania a bad control group: it's not unaffected by the minimum wage increase in New Jersey, it's also affected.
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Notably, that wage is higher than the minimum wage in each state and DC.Read more: A minimum-wage worker needs 1.5 jobs just to afford half the rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in most of the US
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Ryan Aston The tip credit system has been on the line before in Washington, DC. In 2016, ROC was working to collect signatures for a ballot initiative that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 for all workers, do away with the lower minimum wage for tipped workers, and in the future tie the minimum wage to the consumer price index, a measure of inflation.
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A powerful business executive, paid more in one day ($17,192) than a minimum-wage worker makes in a year, Puzder also opposes broad raises to the minimum wage, again reflecting how out of step he is with mainstream America.
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As a result, when news of the surcharge initially garnered media attention, it led to headlines such as America's 'Richest Restaurateur' Tried Adding a 3 Percent Minimum-Wage Fee" and "A billionaire-owned restaurant charged a 'minimum wage' fee.
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In Washington State, which passed a $13.50 minimum wage on Election Day, Walker's Pet Supply and Tattered Page bookstore are among the state's small businesses that have closed or reduced hours and job opportunities because of minimum wage costs.
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One million workers aged 25 or over will directly benefit from the higher minimum wage, according to the U.K. government, which says this is the biggest increase to the minimum wage rate in any G-7 country since 2009.
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That left the minimum wage at the airports at $210.45 an hour, well above New Jersey's statewide minimum wage of $163 an hour, but below the fast-rising minimum that Mr. Cuomo had pressed lawmakers in Albany to adopt.
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That paper used a "differences in differences" methodology that tracked how such death rates changed in states that increased the minimum wage and then compared those with changes in death rates in states where the minimum wage was stagnant.
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" Annual tuition and fees: $7,038 Minimum hourly wage: $11 "Turlock's college students can work 15 hours a week at a minimum wage job to gross $1103,580 a year, thanks to the California minimum wage set at $11 an hour.
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Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of the Fairness Project, which has supported minimum wage campaigns across the United States, said any near-term federal action was unlikely under Trump but activists were considering a minimum wage campaign in New Jersey.
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The authors worry that if the analysis only focused on workers who are either at or below the minimum wage, it would overstate the dis-employment effects if employers moved some workers to wages above the threshold minimum wage.
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Some of these organizations have embraced the sub-minimum wage ban, though the head of Threshold Services, a recycling nonprofit, told the Anchorage Daily News that she won't be able to afford to pay all the workers minimum wage.
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Trump said in July, for instance, that "the minimum wage has to go up" — but on Thursday, the transition team announced that Trump had chosen a vocal critic of minimum wage increases, CEO Andy Puzder, for secretary of labor.
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Trump Calls for End to Federal Minimum WageDonald Trump has called for the elimination of the federal minimum wage, saying individual states should decide on any rises—a backtrack on his primary promise to support a higher minimum wage.
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The legislation also allows the city to set a minimum wage for drivers.
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Bentley signed the bill blocking any minimum wage raises into law on Thursday,
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It also noted that it has lobbied to raise the federal minimum wage.
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Tipped minimum wage, which is currently $2.77, will increase to $5 by 2020.
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Walmart has deemed $215 an hour as minimum wage for its own employees.
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I worked on minimum wage for Ye Olde Mill Shop in Skipton (Britain).
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Imagine a world with $20 minimum wage, so how do you do that?
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Increasing the minimum wage, therefore, would help to protect servers against sexual harassment.
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THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR THE PESO HAS BARELY GONE UP IN PESO TERMS.
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The agreement, including the minimum wage, still needs to get approval from lawmakers.
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With a $183 federal minimum wage, they'll make about $160 every two weeks.
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And a single minimum wage might not be the thing to bind them.
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There was no federal minimum wage until 1938, and it's been raised periodically.
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Whatever happens with the minimum wage, we will still be above that level.
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House Democrats consider raising the minimum wage a foundation of their economic platform.
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We're out of kilter on antitrust laws, out of kilter on minimum wage.
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"Minimum Wage" skirts this by being personal and just a little bit stupid.
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At least 3503 states are slated to raise their minimum wage in 2016.
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We don't have a $25 minimum wage; we're not heading in that direction.
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Want to know why the $240 minimum wage is actually a bad idea?
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The federal minimum wage has held steady at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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This way, startups don't have to pay the minimum wage or expensive benefits.
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San Francisco is set for another minimum wage increase in about a year.
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It would also provide a minimum wage and overtime pay for domestic workers.
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Dara, what % of your drivers make less than minimum wage on their shifts?
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Minimum wage increases and Medicaid expansions pass easily even in the reddest states.
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Many experts say this is better than traditional welfare or minimum wage laws.
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All the evidence suggests Wal-Mart can easily afford a $15 minimum wage.
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But you do recognize the effects on employment from a higher minimum wage?
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Which is why we should not stop with simply raising the minimum wage.
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Minimum wage increases being implemented by some states are also boosting wage growth.
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He would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.
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The federal minimum wage has remained stagnant at $7.25 an hour since 2009.
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Their goal is different, and more ambitious, than removing the tipped minimum wage.
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Thirteen states and the District of Columbia raised the minimum wage last year.
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Maduro also unveiled a 30 percent boost to the country&aposs minimum wage.
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Responding to Mr. Sanders's call for a $15 per hour minimum wage, Mrs.
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She believes that we should raise the minimum wage to a living wage.
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This year alone, four states have approved a $15 per hour minimum wage.
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It is considering granting a higher minimum wage to workers on insecure contracts.
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The company has raised its minimum wage and expanded benefits in recent years.
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Setting the JG wage at the minimum wage is important for anchoring inflation.
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After the debate, a minimum wage "fact check" was posted on Clinton's website.
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Raising the minimum wage, by contrast, is popular and cheap for the government.
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So has the minimum wage ever reached $12, even after adjusting for inflation?
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"Weve now had the longest period without a minimum wage increase," he said.
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Research shows women and minorities are disproportionately affected by the minimum wage issue.
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And a minimum wage floor would mean an estimated $10,000 raise per driver.
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Minimum wage in New Jersey was $7.25 in 2012; it is currently $8.38.
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States can and have individually raised the minimum wage beyond the federal minimum.
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She also supports a $15 minimum wage, greater union power, and rent relief.
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She said she was spurred by his eonomic message, especially regarding minimum wage.
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Signing the $15 minimum wage and paid family leave bill into law. pic.twitter.
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Bernie also re-introduced Senate legislation for a $15 minimum wage this year.
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"All I can get is warehouse work...minimum wage jobs," he told me.
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The only difference is that these counties did not increase their minimum wage.
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He never wanted to raise minimum wage despite an increased cost of living.
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Federal minimum wage is $153 per hour, as it has been since 2009.
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Maduro has raised the country's minimum wage six times in the last year.
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"We've now had the longest period without a minimum wage increase," he said.
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The Flagstaff City Council members who amended the minimum wage are politically diverse.
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Today, economists mostly think that minimum wage increases can be beneficial for workers.
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Former Labour leader Tony Blair introduced a minimum wage in Britain in 1999.
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But, only a very small percentage of adults actually earn the minimum wage.
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France would be the only European country where the minimum wage is higher.
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Last week, the Minneapolis City Council approved a $15 minimum wage by 2024.
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A $15 minimum wage would address concerns that many people like Wise have.
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Increases in the legal minimum wage tend to push up all low wages.
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What can be done One popular response is to boost the minimum wage.
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And it has made supporting an increase in the minimum wage politically popular.
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Instead, he decreed big increases in the minimum wage and in social programmes.
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In recent years, several American cities have introduced their own minimum-wage increases.
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On top of this, Americans want the government to raise the minimum wage.
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First, they're working to derail the minimum-wage increases that have already passed.
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His proposals include a $15 minimum wage and a single-payer healthcare system.
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The wage increase coincides with 19 states adding implementing new minimum wage laws.
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The new minimum wage means about 9,000 state workers will get a raise.
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Many of those jobs pay the minimum wage, which, again, lowers average wages.
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Elizabeth Warren is needling Trump about his position on raising the minimum wage.
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Trump has given conflicting signals over his support for raising the minimum wage.
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"I took a job in the city / To make minimum wage," he spits.
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And finally, on May 210, a new $2000 minimum wage went into effect.
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Walmart and CVS Health have announced raising their hourly minimum wage to $11.
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The new hourly minimum wage rate is scheduled to take effect on Nov.
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Amazon raised its minimum wage to $15 for U.S. workers in October 2018.
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California's minimum wage of $15 an hour will go into effect in 2022.
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If adopted, the measure would require a $2628 minimum wage starting on Jan.
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On the other hand, $15,750 a year sounds like less than minimum wage.
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Most began with minimum wage jobs (or close) and worked up from there.
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The minimum wage is partly to blame for the persistence of financial instability.
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But the tax credit doesn't negate the benefits of a decent minimum wage.
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Walmart has raised its minimum wage twice since 2016 to $11 an hour.
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Moore responded to CNN that he doesn't want to abolish the minimum wage.
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It would more than double the $7.25 minimum wage to $21625 by 2900.
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Republicans have also pulled a bait and switch with a minimum wage increase.
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Read more: Jeff Bezos called for Amazon's competitors to raise their minimum wage.
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Magarin can make some $25 an hour, well above the federal minimum wage.
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Clinton to the left on issues like college affordability and the minimum wage.
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In his youth, he worked for minimum wage, $2.30 an hour, at McDonald's.
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Most economists oppose a $15 minimum wage, and the recent evidence shows why.
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But the House of Representatives did pass a $15 an hour minimum wage.
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These are all direct substitutes for the minimum-wage workers they traditionally employ.
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Both minimum wage increases and medical marijuana initiatives are broadly popular with voters.
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When the minimum wage is kept low, that virtuous cycle is short-circuited.
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But Mr. Kroc, like Mr. Trump, opposed an increase in the minimum wage.
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Instead of raising the minimum wage, New York's legislators should eliminate it altogether.
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Kuper makes $11.40 an hour in Chicago, where the minimum wage is $11.
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Several House Democrats believe the solution is obvious: raise the federal minimum wage.
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More cities and states are passing minimum wage legislation and mandating paid leave.
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This is the amount that the New Jersey minimum wage increased in 1992.
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In the quest for a higher minimum wage, how high is too high?
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Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders championed a $15 minimum wage in his campaign.
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Contracts, minimum wage, and competition for sought-after employees get in the way.
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One of those shared issues: Ending below-minimum wage for people with disabilities.
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Mr. Gillum wants a $15 minimum wage; Mr. Nelson has talked up $12.
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In another seven, the minimum wage rose because it was indexed to inflation.
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Dreams and feelings were a luxury we could not afford on minimum wage.
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Entry-level employees benefited hugely from Price's decision to raise the minimum wage.
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Uber labels its drivers contractors, not employees, to avoid paying a minimum wage.
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The minimum wage ($3.92 an hour) is pretty high compared to other states.
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Adjusted for inflation, minimum wage has gone down by about $3 an hour.
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France's current monthly minimum wage is 1,498.5 euros, or a little over $1,700.
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The federal minimum wage for tipped workers — like bartenders — is $2.13 an hour.
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The states considering minimum wage hikes are Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and Washington State.
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Adjusted for inflation, this is probably the highest minimum wage in American history.
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We could randomly assign a different minimum wage to every county in Ohio.
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I currently work two jobs where I make just above the minimum wage.
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The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is a national disgrace.
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Or the landslide victories for ballot initiatives on Medicaid and the minimum wage.
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Income inequality describes the gap between a six-figure salary and minimum wage.
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"The timing suggests it's the minimum wage" as opposed to a booming economy.
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As part of that effort, he raised taxes and increased the minimum wage.
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Ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage keep passing, even in red states.
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The pay raise will outpace Wal-Mart's recent increase in its minimum wage.
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The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage.
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That wage is more than twice the national (and my state's) minimum wage.
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Bernie Sanders called him to praise Amazon raising its minimum wage to $29.
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No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.
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It's important to keep the effect of these minimum wage increases in perspective.
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But there's no reason it would happen only after a minimum-wage increase.
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It's not enough to raise the minimum wage or to mandate family leave.
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Twenty-one states are at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
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"Most of our members already pay more than the minimum wage," Klass said.
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California's state minimum wage is $12.00 an hour—far more than what rideshare
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" Regarding minimum wage, Trump also said he thinks "people have to get more.
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