And he says he's open to a minimum wage hike.
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I asked workers on both sides about the wage hike.
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It's like a minimum wage hike for the middle class.
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She thinks a minimum wage hike could be a good idea.
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Wage hike negotiations (between labor unions and companies) don't look promising.
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"They're asking for a high wage hike," Vera said by phone.
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Now the minimum wage hike, another top Democratic priority, has gotten stuck.
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Minimum wage hike proponents have argued pay has not outpaced inflation enough.
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Most recently, Arizona educators were promised a 393% wage hike by 2020.
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The largest wage hike, interestingly, at 20173 percent, went to Hispanic men.
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What the wage hike amounts to, then, is a gift from management.
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August's 11-cent average hourly wage hike suggests more of the same.
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Advocates for the wage hike didn't get everything they wanted in the bill.
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Jim Justice and the state legislature agreed to a 5 percent wage hike.
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Expect Amazon executives to field questions about the recent wage hike for employees.
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Separate from Friday's agreement, teachers have already been promised a 10% wage hike.
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News of the store closures, hours after the wage hike announcement, drew some criticism.
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But it's not just large companies that are on board with a wage hike.
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Specifically, it predicted the "average American family" would see a wage hike of $4,000.
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But the shock of an initial wage hike can be too much for many.
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The strike eventually ended, and Congress approved a 6% wage hike for postal workers.
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The last federal minimum wage hike took effect roughly a decade ago in July 2009.
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Sources quoted by Reuters say the pact provides for a cumulative 14 percent wage hike.
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Meanwhile, the National Restaurant Association cautioned against a minimum wage hike to $15 per hour.
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January's 22020-cent average hourly wage hike suggests that the trend has not really shifted.
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"This is the third (minimum wage) hike this year," Maduro said during a televised broadcast.
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California's minimum wage hike pushes the issue beyond the terrain in which it's been studied.
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February's 11-cent hourly wage hike suggests that the trend may be starting to shift.
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"We are likely to see wage hike claims across the entire automotive sector," Balogh said.
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January's 3-cent average hourly wage hike suggests that the trend has not really shifted.
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In contrast, the California wage hike will affect workers making between $10 and $15 per hour.
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This rule—much like a minimum wage hike—would jack up the cost of employing people.
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However, teachers said the wage hike wasn't enough and that they would walk out of classes.
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So the arguing over Seattle — and no doubt over the next minimum wage hike — will continue.
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But Democrats do hope to pass a minimum wage hike as soon as 2021 if they can.
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An Uber spokesperson said the cap blocks new drivers from receiving the benefits from the wage hike.
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Amazon's wage hike follows a commitment by Target to increase its minimum wage to $15 by 2020.
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Health-care costs are one of the reasons some, like Wuebben, disagree with a mandatory wage hike.
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A 2010 public sector wage hike was supposed to help curtail growing corruption, it aggravated it instead.
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December's 11-cent average hourly wage hike suggests that the trend is starting to shift, just barely.
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Turns out, the of Americans agree with them: 28503 percent of Americans favor a minimum wage hike.
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But, the report found, the minimum wage hike would cause 1.3 million workers to lose their jobs.
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Rick Snyder signed into law legislation that delays a minimum wage hike and weakens paid sick leave.
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If voters approve Proposition B, it would impact even more workers than a wage hike in Arkansas.
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So, Walmart's contention that the wage hike move is an outcome of the tax cut doesn't wash.
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All three Democratic candidates support liberal issues such as single-payer healthcare and a minimum wage hike.
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In his previous work, Clemens studied the federal wage hike from $21990 to $22000 between 2006 and 2009.
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But Clinton offered nothing but praise for the $15 minimum wage hike when flanked by Cuomo on Monday.
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Bucharest's parliament has approved an across-the-board public sector wage hike of 25 percent from January 20193.
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But an honest assessment would conclude a federal minimum wage hike to $15 an hour is extraordinarily risky.
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Because of the size of Amazon, their wage hike is a win for all warehouse and service workers.
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But even in this environment, Clinton and his Democratic economists understood that a sharp wage hike wasn't wise.
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Yet businesses did raise prices and reduce employee work hours after the wage hike, Vox's Matthew Zeitlin reported.
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Upstate, the wage hike will roll out more gradually, aiming to hit $12.50 by the end of 2020.
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Even before the wage hike, Barclays Capital Inc last month had downgraded the stock from 'overweight' to 'underweight.
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Democrats control both chambers in Maryland's General Assembly, and passed the wage hike bill with a veto-proof majority.
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But few Democrats joined her, and the party's platform presented a wage hike as a matter of economic justice.
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So, one way to honor employees and improve retention, without a huge wage hike, is the service anniversary award.
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According to The Big Picture, a financial blog, Seattle's unemployment rate has tumbled despite the city's minimum wage hike.
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The study from University of Washington researchers showed that the Seattle wage hike may be hurting low-wage workers.
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It was enough to spook city lawmakers, who repealed the wage hike in October on an 8-5 vote.
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Full-day daycare for low-income families, and a pretty modest federal minimum wage hike to $12 an hour.
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Wage hike and paid leave The new policies follow Walmart's recent efforts to improve pay and benefits for workers.
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And now, amid growing labour unrest and intense anti-union activity on Amazon's part, a conveniently-timed wage hike.
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While Amazon scores points for backing a progressive minimum wage hike, veterans of the company are the ones feeling shafted.
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Opposition to the wage hike comes from restaurant industry groups, but it also comes from people like Kilmeade and Earhardt.
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Though this growth can't be attributed to the wage hike, it does rebut the idea that raising wages kills businesses.
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To absorb the costs associated with such a wage hike, some businesses will close down, invest in automation, or relocate.
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They found no evidence that such a large wage hike would lead to significant job losses or fewer work opportunities.
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Climate change, health care and a minimum wage hike are among the issues that the Sanders campaign are calling victories.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday announced a 50 percent minimum wage hike that takes effect on Sept.
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Last month, more than 2 million public sector employees clinched a 4.75 percent wage hike over this year and next.
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They found no evidence that such a large wage hike would lead to significant job losses or fewer work opportunities.
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Another slows a previously planned minimum wage hike, which was set to also raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.
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In 2004, voters approved a minimum-wage hike in the same election that they voted to elect George W. Bush.
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May's 6-cent average hourly wage hike suggests more of the same, despite a surprising 10-cent jump in February.
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When I set out to interview economists about the effects of California's minimum wage hike, I was expecting some strong disagreements.
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But Congress hasn't approved a new wage hike since 2007, when President George W. Bush signed the current wage into law.
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Republicans, who will still control the White House and Senate, appear to have little appetite for a federal minimum wage hike.
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Some critics of a federal minimum wage hike have argued states should decide appropriate pay floors based on cost of living.
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It's rare to see Republicans calling for a minimum wage hike, but in this case they have an ulterior motive. Rep.
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Last month, we set a new record in Congress – marking the longest stretch in American history without a minimum wage hike.
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That's a really small effect, and one that suggests the benefits of a modest minimum wage hike should swamp the costs.
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On the conference call, Olsavsky said the minimum wage hike would impact "just under" 400,000 workers in the US and UK.
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MEXICAN FINANCE MINISTER SAYS SAYS MINIMUM WAGE HIKE IS PART OF STRATEGY TO STRENGTHEN PURCHASING POWER WITHOUT FANNING INFLATION, HITTING JOBS
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This has led business to threaten to lay off workers, cut back their hours, or relocate outside cities considering a wage hike.
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And in August, economist Jared Bernstein reported that "low-wage workers' employment, hours, and wages all rose substantially" after the wage hike.
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Trump tapped into that working class angst, and sent signals on the campaign trail that he's open to a minimum wage hike.
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While the wage hike may still be damaging to restaurants' ability to thrive in New York, it starts leveling the playing field.
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Ellison has previously pushed for $15 an hour, while Scott joined Murray in calling for a $12 minimum wage hike last Congress.
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The government said a 25 percent wage hike approved for public sector workers for 2018 will cover changes to social security contributions.
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Bank of America had announced on April 9 the minimum wage hike to $20 per hour would take place in two years.
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Liberals were successful in ensuring the wage hike would apply across the country, in the face of moderates calling for regional flexibility.
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Verdi is asking for a 7% wage hike with staff being offered the options of either receiving more money or working less.
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But in the meantime, activists could push to put new liberal initiatives on the ballot, including a more aggressive minimum wage hike.
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His popularity has fallen thanks to bad economic news and a minimum-wage hike that unions thought too small and firms too big.
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Opponents of a wage hike say a $15 minimum wage would pressure businesses to raise prices or cut staff to offset new costs.
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The company, which argued the law would hand an unfair advantage to Uber, recently lost a bid to temporarily halt the wage hike.
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And for the first time, restaurant workers who rely on tips for almost all of their income were included in the wage hike.
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N pilots voted in January to approve a two-year contract extension, paving the way for a 22 percent wage hike by 2018.
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In his statement, Sanders also thanked Amazon workers who reached out to his office asking for support fighting for a minimum wage hike.
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Separately, Volkswagen has offered a 20.8 percent wage hike for around 20.2,6.123 workers in Germany, plus a one-time payment of 26.12 euros.
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In February the Alabama legislature nixed a minimum-wage hike introduced in Birmingham (North Carolina's law also tags on a statewide employment clause).
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Fitch said it assumed that pressure from recent currency depreciation and a minimum wage hike would push inflation into double digits during 2016.
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The wage hike tussle comes amid a sustained recovery in Japan, which has just posted its longest continuous expansion since the 1980s boom.
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Progressive leaders have previously expressed openness to including a study on the small business impact as part of the minimum wage hike. Rep.
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At the end of April, more than 2 million public sector employees clinched a 4.75 percent wage hike over this year and next.
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By including both a wage hike and paid sick leave, plaintiffs say the proposition runs afoul of another provision of the state constitution.
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Verdi official Christoph Meister said in a statement the bank had offered a wage hike that did not even meet the projected inflation.
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It will head to the state Senate which is reportedly expected to pass its own version of a minimum wage hike bill. Hill.
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Experts told me there's no direct analogue to California's wage hike, but one of the closest parallels is Puerto Rico in the early 19903s.
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While tea is one of Sri Lanka's most lucrative exports, the tea pluckers make around $6 per day (that's after a recent wage hike).
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Nine in 10 of those workers potentially affected by the wage hike are over the age of 28 and 2300% of them are women.
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And a national federal wage hike — which many around the nation are pushing for — would make the cost of hiring service workers even higher.
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She told CNN that Cuomo opposed a minimum wage hike to $85033 a few months before he came to embrace a $15 minimum wage.
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This minimum wage hike will help grow the local economy, as workers have the ability to earn an estimated $85033 million in new income.
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Combined, the steps will result in a wage hike of 5 percent to 15 percent for all employees at company-operated stores, Starbucks said.
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The head of the SVIZ, Branimir Strukelj, told protesters another strike would follow on March 14 unless the government agreed to a wage hike.
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Earnings rose much faster for New York state workers as a result of the wage hike when compared to states that didn't raise pay.
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That's a key result of a new University of Washington study that found that the hourly wage hike could in fact be costing jobs.
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Kelly Klass, media manager for the National Federation of Independent Business, said supporters of a wage hike aren't taking small business owners into account.
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Two of my three children are African-American males, so I am personally sensitive to how such a wage hike would effect this population.
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During Banxico's December meeting, when a 25% rate cut was announced, the bank highlighted concerns that a recent minimum wage hike could stoke inflation.
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Last month, Toyota's union said that slowing inflation and an uncertain economic outlook were behind its decision to demand a smaller wage hike this year.
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The survey found that 83% had been affected by a minimum wage hike and said it boosted their labor costs by at least three percent.
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Food inflation has blunted the positive impact of a recent minimum wage hike for the poor, said Muammer Komurcuoglu, economist with Istanbul based Is Invest.
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For Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey and New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte, for example, the DSCC highlighted how they and Trump oppose a federal minimum wage hike.
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The Venn Diagram of potential areas of compromise includes everything from infrastructure and drug pricing, to a federal minimum wage hike and student debt relief.
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In 2014, leading companies consented to an average wage hike of 2.19 percent and last year brought a 2.38 percent raise - a 17-year high.
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In October, White House chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow called a U.S. wage hike a "terrible idea," arguing that "Idaho is different than New York."
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Early-20th century industrial labor strikes are mirrored by modern workplace protests, securing a minimum wage hike in NYC and California in the coming years.
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Gun safety, protection of abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment for women, a minimum wage hike, laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, environmental protection.
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SAA said the unions had agreed to a 5.9% wage hike retroactive to April to be paid from next February subject to funds being available.
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Britain's Wetherspoon, like most pub and restaurant chains, has been battling increased costs due to a minimum wage hike, higher property prices and power bills.
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Recently, two competing studies on the phased-in minimum wage hike in Seattle reached opposing conclusions about the effect on employment, wages and hours worked.
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Even if Democrats can get a minimum wage hike through the House, any legislation will face a tough path to approval in the GOP-held Senate.
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The Kochs have to live with the Export-Import Bank, but liberals don't have their public option or federal minimum wage hike or sensible gun regulation.
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Andrew Cuomo tried to push through an extreme minimum wage hike that would only impact a sub-sector of the restaurant industry, but not its competitors.
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The company, like most pub and restaurant chains, has been battling increased costs due to a mandatory minimum wage hike, higher property prices and power bills.
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But the president of an umbrella labor union in San Lorenzo said a salary hike was needed despite an earlier 40 percent wage hike in May.
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While Chicago's wage hike boosted incomes for workers in transportation, maintenance, and administrative services, restaurant employees did not see higher annual incomes due to the policy.
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Plaintiffs cited companies that provide services to those with developmental disabilities, which will have to pay their employees more once the wage hike goes into effect.
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On the minimum wage, Trump has given mixed signals, and Cresanti argued it would be a mistake to paint Puzder as blindly against any wage hike.
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The group is by no means the only reason cities have been passing minimum wage hike laws, but it's probably been the single most influential actor.
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That means the increased salary expenses aren't expected to affect the retailer's bottom line, since Target baked the wage hike into its $7 billion investment plan.
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Several firms said that they would only consider making use of large tax breaks if profit growth was sufficient to justify a 3 percent wage hike.
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Hartson plans to campaign on support for a minimum wage hike to $15, free public colleges and trade schools and a single-payer health care system.
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Buoyed by activists who helped to push seven states to enact $15 wage floors, Democratic candidates have tossed aside caution about a sweeping nationwide minimum wage hike.
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A famous 1993 study examined the effects of a minimum wage hike in New Jersey by comparing employment in nearby counties in New Jersey and neighboring Pennsylvania.
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The city began to address this with a dramatic minimum wage hike, but also started moving to tax Amazon and other large employers to fund homelessness services.
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They found no evidence that such a large wage hike would lead to significant job losses or fewer work opportunities — something big business groups often warn about.
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The wage hike takes effect on May Day, traditionally celebrated by the left as International Workers' Day, when Maduro supports are scheduled to march in capital Caracas.
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But someone did think of it: WaPo predicted that companies might time wage hike announcements around the tax bill's passage in order to gain favor with Trump.
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More often than not, every new dollar in one worker's salary after a minimum wage hike comes right out of the salaries of his laid off coworkers.
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"We're currently facing a coordinated attack on our constitutional rights via the ballot measure process," Josselyn Berry of Progress Now Arizona, which backed the wage hike, said.
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Other initiatives—"green" coffee cups, a 5 percent wage hike, and tuition reimbursement for employees who attend college—painted liberal varnish onto the nation's largest coffee chain.
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SAA on Friday said the unions had agreed to a 5.9% wage hike retroactive to April, to be paid from next February if sufficient funds were available.
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J D Wetherspoon like most pub and restaurant chains, has been battling increased costs due to a mandatory minimum wage hike, higher property prices and power bills.
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Last month, officials highlighted their concern that a recent minimum wage hike could stoke price pressures, meaning they could refrain from more aggressive easing in coming months.
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The Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), the state's largest teachers union, said that the wage hike is "a truly historic moment" but that it is "incomplete," CNN reported.
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The wage hike for Walmart follows Target's move late last year to raise its minimum hourly wage to $11, with plans to pay out $15 by 2020.
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I loved the clues for PARADISE, DEE and EMOTICON, WISP, AMEX, WAGE HIKE, IKEAS and others, as well as the entries JEN and JAH and KISS OFF.
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U.S. Steel – Workers at the steel maker will get their biggest wage hike in six years, after the United Steelworkers union struck a tentative pact with U.S. Steel.
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The current minimum wage, at $170, makes it a challenge for Cambodia to stay competitive, with some employers arguing the wage hike reduces its appeal for some firms.
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Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos have announced unrelated philanthropy in recent weeks as well as a wage hike, amid criticism of the company's pay and working conditions.
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Before adjourning, the House and Senate approved a school-funding overhaul, legislation authorizing the sale of the state's main office building in Chicago, and a minimum wage hike.
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While the critics are bloviating over how a minimum wage hike affects billionaires, it seems that some Canadians aren't ready to get over their anger at Tim Hortons.
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Speaking at a news conference in Mexico City, Alcalde said the minimum wage hike was agreed between representatives of labor and employers for Latin America's second-biggest economy.
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N pilots have voted to approve a two-year contract extension that paves the way for a 22 percent wage hike by 20193, their union said on Friday.
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The wage hike reinforces Schultz's longstanding commitment to investing in his employees' success, and it positions Starbucks as a key player in the biggest economic story in America today.
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A wage hike reduces inequality in the short term, but it can also help set the tone for how the United States views its wage distribution overall, said Schmitt.
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Oklahoma teachers, who were seeking a $10,000 annual wage hike over three years, will see an average annual pay raise of about $6,100 from the increased funding, lawmakers said.
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Tyson Foods — Tyson is considering raising wages for its poultry plant workers, on top of a 3 percent to 3.5 percent wage hike that it gave workers in November.
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A study of the federal minimum wage hike from $2628 to $28503 in 22019 by economists Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither estimated the hike cost 800,000 low-paid jobs.
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The minimum wage hike in New York state had no immediate discernible effect on job loss, according to a new report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Vasas, a major union which had sought a 2871 percent wage hike, held a two-hour strike at the plant late last month, delaying the shipment of 50 cars.
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The central bank on Thursday cut rates, on softening headline inflation and slack in the economy but highlighted concern that a recent minimum wage hike could stoke price pressures.
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In contrast, the study from IRLE Berkeley finds that average wages rose marginally for certain types of restaurants following the minimum wage hike and had insignificant dis-employment effects.
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ONE-TIME BONUS The increase in wages will cost approximately $300 million on top of wage hike plans that had been included in next fiscal year's plans, the company said.
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CAPE TOWN, April 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's Public Servants Association (PSA) has declared a dispute with government after protracted wage hike talks stalled on Thursday, a senior PSA official said.
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Government workers get a hefty wage hike every 10 years, a populist wage policy that dates back to independence, in addition to half-yearly and annual increments linked to prices.
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The other side: A spokesman for Airlines for America, a trade association of U.S. airlines that opposes the wage hike, said the group complies with all state minimum wage laws.
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The aviation industry's employer body in Sweden has said pilots demanded a 13 percent wage hike, despite what it called already high average wages of 93,000 Swedish crowns a month.
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But immediately after the wage hike, the Republican state legislature passed a new preemption wage bill that would ban localities from raising the wage above the state's minimum of $215.
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He did find that New York City's minimum wage hike had little impact on employment, consistent with reports out of the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Washington.
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The rallies were sparked by the news that some Tim Horton franchisees, in response to a recent minimum wage hike, decided to claw back their worker's benefits and paid breaks.
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Around the same time that New Jersey signed its wage hike into law on February 4, Democrats in Congress began their push for a $15 minimum wage in every state.
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In fact, Springfield is now pushing for its own statewide minimum-wage hike, a move that according to the American Action Forum could cost Illinois nearly 400,000 jobs by 2025.
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A minimum wage hike for its hourly workers, which was announced earlier in October, will not be included in the third-quarter results because it goes in effect on Nov. 1.
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"Any of these (wage hike initiatives) has the potential to further fuel wage growth past the current post recession high should they prevail; potentially eating into corporate profit margins, " Colvin said.
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As a $15 minimum wage becomes a rallying cry for presidential candidates and popular movements across the nation, House Democrats have yet to pass the minimum wage hike they campaigned on.
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Walmart's wage hike comes as retailers focus on customer service and reconfigure how they use their brick-and-mortar stores to compete with the fast delivery and convenience that Amazon offers.
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The companies already struggling to stay afloat and shuttering stores, like Sears and J.C. Penney, are the ones that won't be able to keep pace with Amazon's wage hike, Storch said.
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They compared the share of jobs that paid more after a minimum wage hike to the change in overall jobs that were available to the workers affected by the policy changes.
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Seattle's minimum wage hike, which would jack up wages to $15 an hour by 22015 for companies with more than 22016 employees, was passed five years ago by the City Council.
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Democrats are trying to undermine the good economic news about the second quarter and about the recent wage hike by suggesting the growth spurt is only temporary and cannot be sustained.
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McDonald's stopped working with the National Restaurant Association to lobby against the wage hike in March, and the company came out in support of introducing the wage increase in all industries.
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The Disneyland Resort and the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce have opposed the measure, saying such a wage hike would make it more expensive to do business and could discourage subsequent development.
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What Trump and GOP can learn from failed tax experiment in Kansas Temps rising in Miami in fight over minimum-wage hike The war for workers continues to plague small businesses
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" Ontario's Labour Minister, Kevin Flynn, took everything a step further on Monday by saying that businesses taking the minimum wage hike "out on their workers" is "completely unacceptable" and "completely wrong.
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After promising ambitious economic measures ahead of Monday's speech, Maduro's proposals included a 300 percent minimum wage hike, dialogue with business leaders, and increased use of an inexistent state-backed cryptocurrency.
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The aviation industry's employer body in Sweden has said pilots demanded a 13 percent wage hike, despite what it called already high average wages of 13,000 Swedish crowns ($9,754) a month.
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This year, major Japanese companies — which negotiate with labor unions every spring to agree on a wage hike — raised pay an average 22019 percent, according to Rengo, Japan's biggest labor federation.
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Inflation and inflation volatility are well in excess of peers and Fitch assumes that pressure from recent currency depreciation and the minimum wage hike will push it into double digits during 2016.
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When Democrats take a House majority next month for the first time since 2011, the power shift will give the campaign for a federal minimum wage hike its most credibility in years.
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Azer cited how 3 million U.S. consumers saw a 5 percent average minimum wage hike on July 1 in several cities (Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco) and states (Maryland and Oregon).
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A Congressional Budget Office report indicated that more than 30 million workers would see paycheck bumps with the wage hike, "lifting more than 1 million workers from poverty," the LA Times reports.
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Currently 294.1 states and Washington, D.C., have wage floors above the current federal minimum of $235 an hour, and both major party presidential candidates have expressed support for a federal wage hike.
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Baltimore Mayor Pugh, who was endorsed during her campaign by a who's-who of Democratic notables, raised concerns about how the wage hike would affect the city's small businesses, including her own.
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Bank of America's decision to move up the wage hike is "part of the company's commitment to delivering sustainable, responsible growth by being a great place to work," according to a statement.
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However, the wage hike also led to a 9-percent reduction in the number of hours worked — that resulted in a 6-percent decline in collectivity pay for those low-wage workers.
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The backstory: Tipped workers were exempt from the hourly minimum wage hike in 2016, which raised the floor to $15 an hour by 2020 and include futures annual automatic increases to inflation.
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But the maquiladora industry in Matamoros, and the Day Laborers, Industrial Workers, and Maquila Industries Union, which represents most factory workers in the city, said such a wage hike was too much.
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The proposal sped through the legislative process after the governor's office reached a deal last week with labor unions pushing a similar minimum wage hike in the form of two ballot initiatives.
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Amazon's wage hike came as U.S. unemployment was at a near two-decade low, with retailers and shippers competing for hundreds of thousands of workers for the all-important holiday shopping season.
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" Kanye was even light-years ahead of the minimum-wage-hike debate: "Before you ask me to go get a job today / Can I at least get a raise of the minimum wage?
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This wage hike could help consumer spending to boost Japan's stubbornly slow inflation, but many companies likely fell short of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's goal of increasing wages by 3 percent or more.
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The new wage hike also covers Whole Foods employees, and Bezos is likely worried that the unrest will inspire other Amazon workers to follow suit and is trying to prevent that from happening.
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AHFSZ, a trade union at Audi's Hungarian factory in the western town of Gyor, has formed a strike committee and is seeking a 21.2,21 forint per month wage hike back-dated to Jan.
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While all the new research helps Democrats in Congress make their case for doubling the federal minimum wage, the CBO report will give opponents more reason to push for a smaller wage hike.
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But even in those states, a minimum wage hike wouldn't hit every low-wage worker due to the myriad of exemptions to minimum wage coverage: restaurant workers receiving tips, trainees, agricultural workers, etc.
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Last week, in response to a minimum wage hike in Ontario, some franchise owners, including the co-founders' married children, decided to strip their workers of paid breaks and cut back their benefits.
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The minimum wage hike—introduced by the Ontario government in November—saw Ontario's wage go from $11.40 to $14 at the start of the new year and will jump to $15 next year.
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For example, both papers attempted to use wage and employment data from areas outside Seattle — areas unaffected by the minimum wage hike — to approximate what would have happened in Seattle without the hike.
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's metalworkers union said on Friday it has requested a certificate to strike in the engineering sector after wage hike talks deadlocked, and expects a decision by 15 July.
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The unions also say production targets should not be increased after the wage hike, which many small and medium factory owners argue is a "burden" that may lead to the closure of units.
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To see which of these PUMAs is closest to the city of Seattle, they match on pre-minimum wage hike variables such as average wages, number of jobs, quarterly hours worked and payroll.
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Earlier on Thursday, Walmart announced the wage hike, saying it would also offer a one-time cash bonus, based on length of service, of up to $1,000, and expand maternity and parental leave benefits.
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Dealing with a tightening labor market, Tyson Foods (TSN) is considering raising wages for its poultry plant workers, on top of a 3 to 3.5 percent wage hike that it gave workers in November.
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In a 85033 summary of the previous two decades of research, the economists Neumark and Wascher found that 85 percent of the most credible studies pointed to job loss following a minimum wage hike.
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So if we think of a job guarantee as a minimum wage hike backstopped by a public option for employment, we should not expect a mass migration of workers from private to public jobs.
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A notable study in Seattle found that an initial wage hike from $2012 to $11 didn't reduce jobs, but employment for the lowest-skilled jobs did start to drop after a subsequent increase to $13.
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The Business Council of New York fought the wage hike — and it's head, Heather Briccetti, is one of the directors of the Council of State Chambers, the group that hired Luntz to conduct the survey.
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Around 1103,000 members affiliated to Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers union (CEPPWAWU) began the strike on Thursday, demanding a nine percent wage hike and one-year deal, while employers were offering less.
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But nearly a year after Republicans extended their domination of statehouses across the country, a new challenge has emerged: preventing Republicans from lowering the minimum wage in cities that have voted for a wage hike.
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Investors, always the cynical bunch, figure Washington won't be able to mess things up with disruptive legislation (like a minimum wage hike) or by repealing laws that the markets like (see: massive corporate tax cuts).
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Abe dangled the tax break offer in an attempt to lure companies into a hefty wage hike as a way to spur consumer spending and lift price rises toward the central bank's 2 percent target.
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They believe her victory gives credence to the argument that the Democratic base wants candidates who back progressive issues like "Medicare for All," free tuition to public universities and colleges and a minimum wage hike.
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Which might suggest that the public will respond better to liberal incrementalism (a minimum wage hike, a modest Obamacare fix) than some of the more sweeping ideas that the 2020 candidates are likely to endorse.
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Pascrell said he was hesitant to move forward with the deal after Mexico rejected allowing American inspectors into domestic factories to ensure compliance with a new minimum wage hike, unionization protections and other labor laws.
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In contrast, the IRLE Berkeley study focuses only on the food services and restaurant industry, since that industry is likely to have the largest fraction of low-wage workers affected by the minimum wage hike.
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But Republican Assembly member Jay Obernolte, who represents conservative desert and mountain areas east of Los Angeles, said the governor had already committed the state to spending too much by supporting the minimum wage hike.
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Policy advocates on the left and in the center have largely agreed that the U.S. has needed a minimum wage hike for a while now, although they've disagreed on the size of such an increase.
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Moreover, when the bank reannounced its wage hike in December, a spokesperson initially told the LA Times the wage increase was not tied to the tax bill, only to later backtrack and say it was.
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Bezos said in his letter that the wage hike has benefited more than 250,000 Amazon employees and over 100,000 seasonal employees who worked during the last holiday season at Amazon sites in the United States.
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Walmart in January said its $21 wage hike would cost it about $2500 million this fiscal year and that the bonuses would add on a one-time $400 million charge for the prior fiscal year.
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Amazon's wage hike came at a time when U.S. unemployment was at a near two-decade low as retailers and shippers were competing for hundreds of thousands of workers for the all-important holiday shopping season.
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For example, Del Taco estimates that a 50 cent wage hike in 2017 and 2018 would require an about 1 percent annual menu price increase to cover the total $1 hourly wage impact in that period.
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Mexico's government in December agreed to raise the daily minimum wage by a fifth, the biggest wage hike in the last four and a half decades and the second consecutive major increase in as many years.
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The best-known research contained in its pages is a 6900 study of an increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, which reached the improbable conclusion that the wage hike had boosted jobs relative to neighboring Pennsylvania.
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New York City restaurant workers saw their pay increase by 20% after a $15 minimum-wage hike, and a new report says business is booming despite warnings that the boost would devastate the city's restaurant industry.
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One of the most prominent left-leaning economists in the minimum wage debate is Alan Krueger, co-author of a widely cited 1993 paper finding that a modest minimum wage hike in Pennsylvania didn't cost jobs.
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Studies of the effects of the Seattle wage hike have had different findings: A 216 University of Washington study found that while wages went up, hours worked declined, resulting in less pay for low-wage workers.
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One, who's hoping to get a job working construction on the Wall, rails against millennials, the unions, a minimum-wage hike for fast-food workers, and "these people" who get fired, then turn around and sue.
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The expansion, which will increase Wetherspoon's workforce by nearly a quarter, comes as most pub and restaurant chains in Britain battle increasing costs due to a mandatory minimum wage hike and rising rental and energy bills.
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The airline industry's employer body in Sweden has said pilots sought a 13 percent wage hike despite what it called already high average wages of 93,000 Swedish crowns ($9,777) a month, demands it labeled as "extreme".
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Other factors influencing the deficit in 2198 include the cost of a public wage hike set at 22020 billion dirhams and the allocation of 2195 billion dirhams to boost the purchasing power of the poor, it said.
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Labor groups and clergy members have been trying to restore a wage hike that voters had approved in June, which would have required businesses to eventually pay tipped workers the full minimum wage of $15 an hour.
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The Madras High Court ordered that the garment workers should receive a pay rise of up to 30 percent - the first minimum wage hike for 12 years - and that they could claim arrears going back to 2014.
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He oversaw one of the nation's strongest gun-control measures and a minimum wage hike, the passage of gay marriage and paid family leave, a property-tax cap and spending restraints, plus eight mostly on-time budgets.
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Workers in the crucial export industry had rejected the first wage hike since 2013 as insufficient, saying it would only benefit those in grade seven - the lowest grade jobs - in the latest challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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"Keidanren set an unusually high target of 3 percent for wage hikes and the government has expanded tax incentives for companies raising wages," said Yuichiro Nagai, economist at Barclays Securities, which forecast a wage hike of 2.3 percent.
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The Vermont senator followed up in a letter to Carney last week after media reports detailed how some Amazon workers were dismayed at losing out on stock options and incentive pay as a result of the wage hike.
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On Thursday, Barnes & Thornburg, the law firm representing game companies at the negotiations, put out a press release saying that it offered SAG-AFTRA an immediate 9 percent wage hike, and that the union refused to consider it.
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PRAGUE, Sept 22020 (Reuters) - The Czech centre-left ruling coalition on Friday agreed a public sector wage hike that will increase government spending at a time when economists are warning that budget revenue projections may come up short.
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The price change comes with a 3,000 percent minimum wage hike, tax increases meant to shore up state coffers and a plan to peg salaries, prices and the country's exchange rate to the petro, an elusive state-backed cryptocurrency.
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"Puerto Rico experienced massive job losses as a result of the application of the U.S. minimum to the island," wrote Alida J. Castillo-Freeman and Richard B. Freeman in a widely cited 1992 study of the minimum wage hike.
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She cited reports from workers who saw their hours cut after the initial wage hike last year or who received a smaller annual raise than they might have due to changes in the calculation of yearly performance-based hikes.
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He noted that Wal-Mart's employee rating, as measured by input from workers to the Glassdoor site, had improved to 3.1 in the final quarter of 2015 from 2.9 in the last quarter of 2014 before its wage hike.
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But imagine a president who was just as uncouth as Trump but embraced a set of actually populist positions: universal health insurance, a minimum wage hike, and an increase in infrastructure spending paid for by taxes on the wealthy.
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In Chennai, workers are fighting lengthy court battles to get their dues, two years after the Madras High Court said they should receive a pay rise of up to 30 percent - the first minimum wage hike in 12 years.
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Ciolos and his cabinet have spent months working on a unified public sector wage bill that addresses inequalities such as similar workers earning vastly different pay and proposes an average wage hike of 34 percent in stages by 2022.
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But the wage hike meant many factories now deducted housing, food and work permit costs from workers' salaries - in violation of labor laws - whereas they previously provided such services for free, said Siwanat Petchsringoen, FTI's manager in Mae Sot.
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"Still, [Sanders'] call at least recognized a reality often forgotten or ignored in debates about the role a company like ours can and should play in the economy," Carney writes of the positive effect Amazon's wage hike has had.
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Surprisingly, the authors of that study, David Card and Alan B. Krueger, found that employment at New Jersey restaurants affected by the wage hike actually increased faster than employment at nearby restaurants in Pennsylvania, where the minimum wage did not increase.
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German trade union IG Metall said a first round of wage talks at Volkswagen failed to produce a result, adding it was disappointed the carmaker did not present a counter-offer to its demand for a 6 percent wage hike.
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Moderate Democrats and most Republicans complained that the legislation was being rushed through, and would disproportionately harm businesses in poorer parts of the state, where the cost of living is not high enough to warrant such a dramatic wage hike.
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After two rounds of failed talks earlier this week, union chief Zoroslav Smolinsky said a compromise between his demand of 13.9 percent wage hike over two years and the company's offer of 9 percent could be reached at the next meeting.
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Additionally, many Resistance groups and unions are collaborating on campaigns like the Fight for $15 minimum wage hike, while unions like Service Employees International and Communications Workers of America threw their support behind the Women's March and other anti-Trump efforts.
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It took further collective action from Walmart's workers to push the company, finally, into a small wage hike after a series of strikes and protests rippled across the country, led by workers like Venanzi Luna, Tyfani Faulkner, and Janet Sparks.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Buoyed by concluding a big pay raise for steel workers last month, a United Steelworkers union top negotiator squares off on Wednesday against oil companies seeking to win a 24 percent wage hike for 30,000 refinery and chemical employees.
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On Wednesday evening, a DC Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the restaurant industry, whose lawyers had filed a lawsuit on behalf of a local bartender to block the latest effort to put the wage hike back on the ballot.
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Their study, which was later published in the same academic journal where the Card-Krueger paper first appeared, reached a not-so-surprising conclusion: Rather than boosting employment, New Jersey's mandated wage hike decreased it—much as sound economic theory predicts.
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The result was close to the two-stage 4.75 percent wage hike agreed for more than 2 million public sector employees in another major agreement two weeks ago, indicating this range as the benchmark for other settlements in German industry.
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In Frankfurt, hub to German flagship airline Lufthansa , around 800 ground crew will receive a pay increase of 1.15 euros an hour in three steps, equivalent to an average wage hike of around 9 percent, the union said on Thursday.
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Aside from the tax law, the Democrats are hammering Republicans for rejecting a minimum wage hike and a recent proposal, contained in the farm bill, which is predicted to cut millions of people off of the federal food stamp program.
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The price change comes with a 3,000 percent minimum wage hike and tax increases meant to shore up government revenue and a plan to peg salaries, prices and the country's exchange rate tied to the petro, an elusive state-backed cryptocurrency.
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The RBA has been loath to heed its own wage hike recommendation, with employees at its note-printing subsidiary calling a strike last week to demand a 3.5 percent pay rise, rather than the 2 percent the central bank was offering.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Mexican Finance Minister Arturo Herrera said on Twitter on Tuesday that a proposed daily minimum wage hike of 20% is part of a strategy to strengthen workers' purchasing power without fanning inflation or hitting jobs.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 11 (Reuters) - South Africa trade union Solidarity has submitted wage hike demands in the gold sector of at least 10 percent annually over the next three years, according to a document submitted to the Chamber of Mines seen by Reuters.
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The changes would help rein in the fiscal gap as a 25 percent wage hike for about 1.2 million public sector workers needs to be partly offset by changes to the social security tax system that would bring more money into state coffers.
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But in a lawsuit filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce said the wage hike violates Arizona's constitution because it creates new costs to the state without paying for them.
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In Mexico, investors shrugged of minutes of the central bank's December meeting that said a recently announced minimum wage hike could fan inflation as well as data that showed activity in Mexico's manufacturing sector fell to a new series low in December.
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Even so, several moderate Democrats and most Republicans complained that it was being rushed through, and would disproportionately harm businesses in poorer parts of the state, where the cost of living is not high enough to warrant such a dramatic wage hike.
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Indeed, when I asked two economists on opposite sides of the debate to predict the effects of California's minimum wage hike earlier this year, they actually had the same response: The increase was so large that we don't know what's going to happen.
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But the "Fight for 15" has been primarily funded by unions, some of whom frankly were dragged into the battle by other affiliated organizations who were less than inspired by the Obama administration's and congressional Democrats' support for a paltry minimum wage hike to $10.10.
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CHENNAI, India, July 267.1890 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian court has ordered a pay rise of up to 30 percent for hundreds of thousands of garment workers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the first minimum wage hike in more than 12 years.
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Murphy campaigned on a single-payer health-care system, a minimum wage hike to $15 and free tuition to public college and trade schools Guadagno focused heavily on lowering New Jersey's high property taxes, but her campaign didn't appear to catch fire with voters.
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According to founder Jeff Bezos, Amazon did this after "[listening] to its critics," which is a statement that illustrates perfectly why a one-time wage hike isn't a panacea for all of the workers under Amazon's very large umbrella—instead, they need a union.
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White House adviser calls a wage hike 'silly' While President Donald Trump was on both sides of this issue during his campaign in 2016 and said certain states need much higher wages, his White House has been cool to the idea of a minimum wage increase.
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Among the main challenges for the new government will be disputes with Hungary's MOL over decision-making in jointly owned Croatian energy group INA, with public sector trade unions over wage hike promise, and with local banks over the forced conversion of Swiss franc loans into euros.
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Target management has informed store managers, who in turn have started informing employees about the wage hike and most employees who earn less than $10 per hour should see their base pay go up in May, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
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The New York wage hike was a partial victory; in 2016, the state legislature agreed to set a $15 minimum across industries, but in doing so, it stripped the labor commissioner of the power to use wage boards to raise minimums for specific occupations in the future.
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While financial sector growth will slow after rapid expansion in 2015, households' disposable incomes will benefit from the government's tax reform measures (announced in February 2016) and from a wage hike as the automatic wage indexation mechanism is estimated to be triggered around end-2016 according to STATEC.
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"There are people in Washington who are bragging about this economy, but I think these initiatives make clear that voters aren't satisfied," Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of the pro-minimum wage hike policy and advocacy group the Fairness Project, said on a conference call with reporters last week.
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A study released in 2018 found that fast food restaurants were more likely to go out of business following a minimum wage hike — and new ones were more likely to start up, creating a negligible long-term change in employment but difficult experiences for many individual business owners.
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Among the groups calling for a minimum wage hike include some of the country's leading Latino organizations that have convinced themselves that rather than looking to grow the economic pie, a better approach is to compel businesses to pay their employees more without factoring in important business considerations.
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He secured a massive $700 billion spending bill that will mean new fleets of ships, planes, submarines, missiles and helicopters and the largest pay increase for military personnel in eight years, though his claim that it is the first wage hike for the troops in a decade is false.
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Policy-wise, a lot of de Blasio's record is strong, and he's essentially delivered on what he set out to do when campaigning for mayor: He delivered universal pre-K and expanded paid sick leave, reduced stop-and-frisk policing, and oversaw the city's $15 minimum wage hike.
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Policy-wise, a lot of de Blasio's record is strong, and he's essentially delivered on what he set out to do when campaigning for mayor: He delivered universal pre-K and expanded paid sick leave, reduced stop-and-frisk policing, and oversaw the city's $15 minimum wage hike.
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Last year, we raised our minimum wage to $15-an-hour for all full-time, part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees across the U.S. This wage hike benefitted more than 250,000 Amazon employees, as well as over 100,19973 seasonal employees who worked at Amazon sites across the country last holiday.
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The Walmart wage hike, taking minimum pay up from the current $24.703 an hour after in-house training, is aimed at helping the company attract workers at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate is at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low, making it harder to attract and retain minimum wage employees.
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But as a new report from the National Employment Law Project Action Fund makes clear, this year offers an unprecedented opportunity for low-wage workers and their allies to break the logjam in the U.S. Senate by electing champions who will lead on the issue and put a minimum wage hike within reach.
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Amazon announced last October that it was raising minimum wage for all workers to $15 an hour, but many workers said that increase was not enough, especially since it was also getting rid of incentive pay and restricted stock unit grants (the company claimed that its new wage hike compensated for the new wage structure).
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The agency on Wednesday said Hertz and Thrifty parent DTG Operations Inc would pay the money to about 150 employees who worked at the airport between January 2014, when the city's minimum wage hike took effect, and the following year when the state's top court rejected claims that it did not apply to airport workers.
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On Monday, the anti-minimum wage movement has a study of its own showing the opposite: new research from University of Washington saying that the 2016 minimum-wage hike from $11 to $13 caused employers to shed jobs and cut back on hours, the cumulative effect of which reduced the income of poor workers by $125 per month.
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Despite a September report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that found the minimum wage hike in New York State had no immediate discernible effect on job loss and recent research suggesting that raising the minimum wage by just $1 could lead to a drop in suicide rates, the federally mandated minimum wage hasn&apost budged in over a decade.
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed from March, he argued that "dramatic increases in labor costs have a significant effect on the restaurant industry, where profit margins are pennies on the dollar and labor makes up about a third of total expenses," and said that ramped up expenses like a minimum wage hike would push corporations toward automation -- and in so doing eliminate jobs entirely.
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The core index, which strips out some volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.36 percent during the month on the back of a rise in merchendise goods and services.. The Bank of Mexico has warned that a minimum wage hike enacted by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government could fan inflation and make it difficult to bring consumer prices to the bank's 3% target in 2020.
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Republicans in Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina — where the GOP lost seats during the 2018 midterms — are considering last-minute ways to push conservative policies and weaken the power of incoming Democrats before they leave office, reports AP. What's happening: In Michigan, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a minimum wage hike that was previously approved in a referendum in order to make it easier to amend during the lame-duck period.
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Terri SewellTerrycina (Terri) Andrea Sewell'Raise the Wage Act' would drop the hammer on the most vulnerable workers Ocasio-Cortez distances herself from ex-staffer's controversial tweet Mueller says political campaigns should report offers of foreign assistance MORE (D-Ala.), a New Democrat Coalition vice chair, had proposed a regional minimum wage that would allow places with lower costs of living to raise minimum wages more slowly, as well as a tax credit to help small businesses adjust to the minimum wage hike.
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