Word: minimum
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Scary Fact Number Four: The players may strike in September. Would somebody please remind these prima donnas that the major league minimum salary...
Becerra also said that illegal immigrants often live in squalid conditions while working below minimum wage. And just like regular citizens, they are assessed payroll and local taxes...
...wasn't making any effort to explain to me what he was doing, and I was asking, 'Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain to me what you gonna do?!' " Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service. Deaf AIDS patients nationwide are used to screaming, moaning and banging things just to alert hospital workers to their needs...
...hiring a full-time business employee plunges you into an entirely new dimension of complexity. By my count (which undoubtedly is wrong), it takes a minimum of 37 different forms and 50 separate checks to hire a single employee for a year, even if she graciously agrees to be paid only once a month...
...everyone was so enamored of it. Sales taxes are regressive: poor people who exhaust their earnings on taxable goods and services will be hit harder than the well off, who spend less of their disposable income. And although the per-student minimum gave it the appearance of egalitarianism, that impulse seems offset by a loophole exempting the state's 40 wealthiest districts from limits on per-pupil spending. Furthermore, sales-tax revenues are notorious for sudden plunges when consumer spending slows down during a recession. Warns Raymond Mackey, a regional director of the American Federation of Teachers, which opposed...