Word: waged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start of Monday night's city council meeting, members of the Cambridge Campaign for a Living Wage presented councilors with a proposal for an ordinance that would set the minimum wage at $10 per hour for people working in Cambridge...
Currently, the Federal minimum wage is $5.15 per hour while the state minimum wage is $5.25 per hour. Massachusetts employers are bound by the state's minimum wage as it is higher than the federal minimum wage...
...living wage rate, which would not apply to people working for some types of businesses such as nonprofits, would be recalculated every year to account for inflation...
Campaign volunteers cited Baltimore as an example of a city that adopted the living wage and has not encountered any negative responses by the business community...
...Baltimore living wage, which was enacted in 1994, is $7.70 per hour and applies to anyone working on a city or state contract...