Word: minimum
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JOBS AND THE ECONOMY Contends the economy is the strongest it has been in three decades, Favors more spending on education and job training to reduce unemployment and prepare workers for jobs of the future. Strongly backed the minimum-wage increase...
...JOBS AND THE ECONOMY] Says the economy is functioning at no better than a "fast crawl." Says a more 'pro-growth" economy, including lower taxes and reduced government regulation, is the best way to create more and better jobs. Reluctantly went along with the Democrats on the minimum-wage increase...
DeGette vows to fight cuts in Medicare and Social Security, which she calls "contracts with our seniors," and received the Outstanding Legislator Award from the Colorado Senior Lobby for her work on their behalf in the Colorado House. She supports the minimum-wage increase, gun control and a single-payer health-care system. Ardently pro-choice, DeGette sponsored the "bubble bill" during her first term in the Colorado House to help protect access to abortion clinics...
...popular Atlanta business executive who nearly won the governorship two years ago, is a conservative Republican committed to lower taxes, a balanced-budget amendment, better health-care systems through free-market incentives and support for local law-and-order crime programs, including tough work requirements for prisoners and mandatory minimum sentencing...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The harder working Americans work, the farther they fall behind. That is why it is so important to raise the minimum wage to a decent level...