Word: minimum
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...growing bipartisan chorus continued voicing dissatisfaction with the President's $40 billion emergency-loan-guarantee package for Mexico, which many characterized as a bailout for wealthy investors. The President, meanwhile, indicated that he would wait and sound out his staunch Republican foes before proposing a specific increase in the minimum wage...
After 56 minutes of recycled campaign themes, Bill Clinton finally made some news during last week's State of the Union address: the minimum wage should climb, he said, because ``you can't make a living on $4.25 an hour.'' That's for sure--but as Clinton himself explained two years ago, hiking the minimum is ``the wrong way to raise the incomes of low-wage earners...
First, some facts about the minimum wage and those...
...important to keep the number of peoplewith the root password to a minimum," Steen said."It is my goal to reduce this small number ofpeople to an even smaller number...
Facing a nearly solid blockade of GOP opposition, President Clinton drew a line in the political sand and proposed increasing the minimum wage by 90 cents to $5.15 an hour over a two year period. In a Rose Garden ceremony, Clinton said that without the increase, the real buying power of the minimum wage would fall to a 40-year low next year. To counter this, Clinton proposed two hikes of 45 cents each over the current level of $4.25 an hour. But even as he released the plan, the Administration braced for what will surely be a bloody battle...