Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s the minimum wage has really lived up to its name. Since it was last raised to $3.35 an hour in 1981, inflation has eroded its purchasing power by 27%. Meanwhile, the Reagan era became famous for skyrocketing maximum wages as greed became fashionable throughout the land. Frustrated by Congress's repeated failures to improve the national standard for the lowest- paid employees, eleven states set higher minimums of their own. Even fast- food chains often find themselves bidding $6 an hour and up for workers who scoff at the minimum wage as "chump change...
Last week the White House joined with congressional Democrats to give a raise to those at the bottom of the scale. Starting next April, the lowest- paid workers will receive $3.80 an hour, to be followed by a raise to $4.25 a year later. That represents a concession by the President, who wanted the increase phased in over three years. But congressional Democrats also gave ground by agreeing to an idea they had fiercely resisted in the past, a so- called training wage for teenage workers. The training wage, which can be paid to a worker only during his first...
Congressional Democrats and their labor allies had repeatedly been thwarted in their attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
Pull over, Good Morning, America. Hands up, Today. Here comes Roll Call with Debra Maffett and Tom Park -- the centerpiece of LETN, the Law Enforcement Television Network, a novel, $6.5 million, 24-hour broadcast service by Westcott Communications of suburban Dallas. LETN is beamed exclusively to law- enforcement agencies via coded satellite signals. Its mission: to provide police with the latest law-enforcement techniques and training, along with the most up-to-date crime news from around the country. Explains network President Billy Prince, a former Dallas police chief: "There's a terrible lack of knowledge among police. Information...
...minimum wage, frozen at $3.35 an hour since January 1981, is paid to about four million American workers. But the legislation likely will have a broader impact by driving up the wages of workers who now make slightly more than the minimum wage, particularly those covered by collective bargaining agreements...