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21 Jul

Minimum Wage Goes Up This Week

WOOPTYFUCKINDOO! Who can live on $234.00 a week? And I’d guess most of these jobs provide no medical coverage. I got news for congress. Raising minimum wage in the next two years to just above $15,000 before taxes is no big accomplishment. Not even close to catching up to the cost [...]

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30 Apr

Minimum Wage Hike Delayed

I thought this was a done deal…….in the first 100 hours. Guess not.
WASHINGTON - Increasing the minimum wage should be easy for a Congress controlled by Democrats, especially with President Bush’s pledge of support.
But a $2.10 boost for America’s lowest-paid workers is again being delayed, this time in a tussle over [...]

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03 Feb

Pelosi Under Attack for Minimum Wage Exemption

WASHINGTON D.C. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is coming under fire from some republicans for a loophole in the minimum wage hike passed by the house this week as part of the democrats’ “First One-Hundred Hours” agenda.
Nancy Pelosi and her allies are under political seige over the minimum wage bill she so fervently [...]

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02 Feb

Minimum Wage Increase In Jeopardy?

If the American middle class and poor are doomed to carry more and more of our tax burden, then what’s the point? Wouldn’t it make more sense to toss out this legislation and offer up one that increases the wages of the American wealthy? Same damn difference! Even more pathetic than that, I know poor [...]

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31 Jan

Senate Invokes Cloture on Minimum Wage Bill

I received this letter today. You can go to the site and download flyers and sign a petition on support of an increase in the minimum wage. (I don’t know if these petitions do any good at all, but I signed it.) Friggin Republicans will never quit. More bullshit after more bullshit after [...]

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21 Dec

A Hollow Victory?

Raise the federal minimum wage, and offset it with a tax break for small businesses. Wouldn’t this just shift more of the tax burden back to the workers themselves? I mean, it’s gotta be paid and someone has to pay it, right? And why is it I don’t like the sound of that “regulatory relief”?

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