Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was getting along because he was going along. After threatening to veto big spending bills, he compromised more than people thought he would. He reached agreement with Congress on a raise in the minimum wage, from $2.30 an hour to $2.65 an hour, and on a farm price-support bill that may cost $4 billion this year instead of his original limit of $2.3 billion. Says O'Neill: "Carter's people came down here with a chip on their shoulder against Congress. Carter thought Congress was like the rednecks of the Georgia legislature." Now O'Neill...
...that, Washington will pay 75% of the first $500 of state supplements to the $4,200. Then it will pay 25% of supplements that bring recipients up to the poverty line. States will be required to pay 10% of the wages of public service jobs, which will pay the minimum wage, and they can vote nonmatching supplements...
...first responses to the program around the country were favorable. Vernon Jordan, the National Urban League director who had criticized Carter for neglecting blacks' concerns, praised the program as an "improvement over the present system. The stress on job creation, the national minimum-income support level, the additional funds and the expansion of the current income tax credit are all positive aspects...
...animal shelter and is not claimed within five days it will probably be destroyed. For a $30 fee Keane advises the client on how to find his pet and supplies a form poster that can be individualized with a description of the loved one (Keane recommends a minimum $50 reward). For $100 plus expenses he will devote himself exclusively to finding one pet, and with the Irregulars will scour a neighborhood as thoroughly as Mr. Holmes on the trail of Professor Moriarty...
...popular acceptance for their bills, the unions are planning a lengthy. $800,000 promotional blitz featuring newspaper ads, talk-show appearances and a massive direct-mail campaign. White House aides even solicited views of business leaders to find ways to soften opposition to labor-law reform and an increased minimum wage. Still, employers generally remain hostile to both measures. A coalition of business lobbyists, backed by a war chest of more than $1 million," is planning what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes as "a long and bitter battle" against the labor-reform proposals. Thus the stage...