Word: minimum
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...alone, but Congress is expected to approve a stop-gap hike in taxes for both employers and employees. Welfare reform is coming under increasing attack from groups that feel threatened by it. Labor, for example, is worried that the creation of 1.4 million public-service jobs at the $2.30 minimum-wage level will have a depressing effect on wage scales around the country...
...ticket that allows him up to 21 days of travel to any or all of 101 cities-excluding Canada-on Eastern's route map, which stretches from coast to coast and to Mexico City, Acapulco and twelve Caribbean islands. The only catch, aside from the fact that the minimum three-stopover itinerary must be settled and paid for in advance; the fare is available only to passengers traveling in pairs...
John Bjork, 27, an insurance broker, and his wife Stephanie, 24, searched for three months for a house on Chicago's suburban North Shore, where Stephanie grew up, but found that "the minimum for a bungalow is $70,000 to $80,000." They have now about decided to buy a bigger, older house in Deerfield, Ill, for $71,000. Stephanie's parents will chip in part of the $14,000 down payment, and monthly payments for principal, interest and taxes alone will come to $560. Laments Stephanie: "Those payments are not most of our budget?they...
...Work, which is aimed at longtime welfare mothers, ex-drug addicts and ex-convicts in 13 cities. Started in New York City in 1972, the program caught on in such cities as Atlanta and Oakland, Calif., and now enrolls 3,000 workers nationwide. It provides employment at about the minimum wage under rigid job discipline. After a year or so, managers help participants find private jobs...
...service are a "good thing" and foresees further rule relaxing to permit more efficient use of aircraft. This could result in cheaper rates between many destinations. At $236, Laker's fare already is the lowest transatlantic price in years. It is barely a fourth of the $830 minimum on the Queen Elizabeth 2. Indeed, it is $14 less than the $250 fare to fly between New York City and Denver...