Word: minimum
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...Senate vote came eight days after President Bush and congressional Democrats agreed on the plan to boost the minimum wage by 45 cents next April 1 and another 45 cents a year later...
WASHINGTON--The Senate gave final passage yesterday to legislation to raise the hourly minimum wage to $4.25 by April 1991, the first increase in the floor wage since...
Bush's signature will not only trigger the first increase in the minimum wage in nearly a decade but also will end a bitter stalemate between congressional Democrats and successive Republican administrations over the politically charged issue...
...nine-year logjam on the minimum wage is finally broken," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), a key architect of the compromise. "The working poor are about to receive an increase, although it is not as much as they deserve...
...debt of gratitude to the president of the United States, who was willing to stand up and support a minimum wage increase, thereby reversing the policy of the prior administration, which had consistently opposed any increase," said Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine...