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Friends and relatives of Andrew R. "Moty" Hornstein last night paid tribute to the first-year Harvard student who died while home for Yom Kippur...
...last raised to $3.35 an hour in 1981, inflation has eroded its purchasing power by 27%. Meanwhile, the Reagan era became famous for skyrocketing maximum wages as greed became fashionable throughout the land. Frustrated by Congress's repeated failures to improve the national standard for the lowest- paid employees, eleven states set higher minimums of their own. Even fast- food chains often find themselves bidding $6 an hour and up for workers who scoff at the minimum wage as "chump change...
Last week the White House joined with congressional Democrats to give a raise to those at the bottom of the scale. Starting next April, the lowest- paid workers will receive $3.80 an hour, to be followed by a raise to $4.25 a year later. That represents a concession by the President, who wanted the increase phased in over three years. But congressional Democrats also gave ground by agreeing to an idea they had fiercely resisted in the past, a so- called training wage for teenage workers. The training wage, which can be paid to a worker only during his first...
...measure, passed overwhelmingly by the House last week, also creates a new, subminimum wage that could be paid to teen-agers for their first three months in the work force and up to three months more for those in certified training or education programs...
...minimum wage, frozen at $3.35 an hour since January 1981, is paid to about four million American workers. But the legislation likely will have a broader impact by driving up the wages of workers who now make slightly more than the minimum wage, particularly those covered by collective bargaining agreements...