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| Wages aren't stagnating, they're plummeting Washington Post (blog) For workers in the 10th, 20th and 50th percentiles, median hourly wages haven't grown much at all since the early 1970s. But a few economists have argued that this misses what's really going on: Since the 1970s, women and racial minorities have become ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Scranton, Penn. to pay back workers' wages, plus interest Chicago Tribune (Reuters) - After slashing public employees' pay to minimum wage on July 6, the mayor of cash-poor Scranton, Pennsylvania, has struck a deal to pay them back what they are owed with interest. Mayor Christopher Doherty agreed that the city would pay ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Employment Costs in the U.S. Increased 0.5% in Second Quarter Bloomberg "Wage growth has slowed very sharply. In real terms, we're actually negative," said Tom Porcelli, chief U.S. economist at RBC Capital Markets LLC in New York before today's report. "Consumer fundamentals are not very sound right now. Aggregate demand ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scranton City Workers Set To Be Paid More Than Minimum Wage Again Huffington Post Doherty made headlines in early July for cutting public-sector pay to the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour -- a move that affected the city's police, firefighters, garbage collectors and government employees, including Doherty himself. According to The ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scranton, unions reach settlement over minimum-wage back pay, motion to hold ... Scranton Times-Tribune Scranton and its police, fire and public works unions have reached a settlement over Mayor Chris Doherty's decision to cut city employees' pay to minimum wage for one pay period earlier this month. Under the agreement, which was reached Saturday, the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Raise the Minimum Wage? The Pros and Cons Newsradio 620 (blog) I worked in my hometown's public library and was making minimum wage. I was $3.35 an hour. I can still remember my dad's reaction when I complained about how I wish they would raise the minimum wage. He told me that if they did raise the wage I might ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Higher Wages For Retail Workers Decreases Employee Theft: Study Huffington Post More than two-thirds of America's low-wage workers have jobs at highly-profitable companies like Walmart, according to a recent report from the National Employment Law Project. The retail industry has the third largest share of low-wage workers in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Letters: Texas plates, minimum wage, Medicaid Houston Chronicle Regarding "States, local governments push base pay" (Page A6, Sunday), on raising the minimum wage, one can only hope that Congress does not increase it. Raising the minimum wage would mean increasing the cost of goods and services to cover any ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Senate Dems fire back over 'attack' on Schumer Albany Times Union (blog) Rather than join Senate Democrats in fighting to help working men and women, the Republicans continue to pander to the extreme right wing of their party by insisting on tax breaks for the wealthiest while blocking a reasonable minimum wage hike and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Republicans wage fierce primary campaigns for 2 congressional seats in north ... The Republic ATLANTA — Republican voters in north and eastern Georgia were casting ballots Tuesday to settle fierce GOP primary races for two seats in Congress — one new district centered on Gov. Nathan Deal's old political turf and the other redrawn to give ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Employment costs up modestly in second quarter Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Labor costs rose moderately in the second quarter, according to government data on Tuesday that underscored benign wage inflation against the backdrop of a weak jobs market. The Employment Cost Index, which measures total ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rivals wage bitter dispute for Miami-Dade commission seat MiamiHerald.com Miami-Dade politics. Rivals wage bitter dispute for Miami-Dade commission seat. By Charles Rabin The Miami Herald. Two political veterans are vying for a county commission seat that cuts through the heart of North Miami-Dade to the Broward County line. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Local economic voices weigh in on federal proposal raising minimum wage Today's TMJ4 MILWAUKEE- Two local voices are sharing their opinion on a federal proposal that would increase the nation's -- and Wisconsin's minimum wage. Jennifer Epps-Addison, the Economic Justice Program Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, is supporting ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan June bonus payments fall 1.5 pct yr/yr Reuters TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - Japanese wage earners' special payments, which are predominately summer bonuses, fell 1.5 percent in June from the same month last year, government data showed on Tuesday, in a sign that recent gains in consumer spending ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GOP Insiders Wage War on Ron Paul Delegates ConservativeHQ GOP Insiders Wage War on Ron Paul Delegates. By CHQ Staff | 7/31/12. It is hard to believe that Republican Party insiders are so dumb that they haven't yet grasped that the only way to defeat Barack Obama is to unite conservatives behind Mitt Romney's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The South Is A Decade Behind The Rest Of The Country In The Proportion Of ... MarketWatch (press release) WASHINGTON, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs in the United States will require some form of postsecondary education and training, while the South will require 57 percent, according to the new Georgetown study ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wage Stagnation Isn't Due to a Compositional Shift Wall Street Pit From the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, inflation-adjusted wages for Americans in the middle and below rose in sync with the economy. Since then, the median wage has barely budged. Steve Landsburg suggests that worry about this is misplaced, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Schumer weighs in on minimum wage battle YNN Hudson Valley Senior Senator Charles Schumer has been one of several senators who are pushing federal legislation to up the minimum wage to nearly $10. Schumer made a stop in Albany Monday, weighing in on the state's struggle to increase the minimum wage, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Pa. Fire Union, City Reach Settlement Over Wages Firehouse.com Scranton's fire union, along with other unions representing city employees, has reached a settlement over Mayor Chris Doherty's move to cut pay to minimum wage for one pay period. The city will pay employees in full for the withheld wages -- along with 6 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UTCC: Wage hike hurts textile industry Bangkok Post Kiatanant Luankaew, director of the UTTC's research centre said the wage policy already enforced in the provinces of Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Nakhon Pathom and Phuket is hurting manufacturers in those areas. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| On Currently: (8:30 AM-12:00 PM) Newsradio 620 Statistically speaking she is correct, as those working minimum wage jobs at $7.25 an hour full-time earn around $15080 a year -- which is about $8000 below the poverty guideline for a family of four. Opponents of Epps-Addison, including Brett Healy ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Study: Raising minimum wage won't help poor Youngstown Vindicator According to EPI's analysis of recent Census Bureau data, a wage hike of this magnitude is projected to eliminate as many as 35634 jobs for Ohio's less-skilled and experienced workers. Analyzing census data, the study finds that the legislation is poorly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Romney Economy: Too Few (American) Jobs, Too Little Pay Huffington Post Still, maybe Romney had good reason to want to get the heck out of dodge for a little while, considering that this week thousands of protestors across the U.S. took to the streets demanding an increase in the minimum wage. Those crowds -- in over fifty cities ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Histadrut warns against postponing minimum wage rise Globes Histadrut chairman Ofer Eini threatens industrial action if the government goes beyond the austerity measures approved yesterday and seeks to change the collective labor agreements already signed with the union. He made the remarks during a meeting of ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Wage stagnation isn't due to a compositional shift « Consider the ... By Lane Kenworthy From the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, inflation-adjusted wages for Americans in the middle and below rose in sync with the economy. Since then, the median wage has barely budged. Steve Landsburg suggests that worry about this is ... Consider the Evidence | ||
| Obama Opposes Min. Wage Increase In Samoa Due To Harmful ... By Mark Perry Minimum wage in American Samoa varies from $4.18 to $5.59 per hour, depending on the industry. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 provided for annual 50-cents per hour increases until the rate matched the rest of the U.S., where the ... DailyMarkets.com | ||
| Pay soldiers and police a living wage - The Nation Pay soldiers and police a living wage. If tourists aren't rushing to Thailand after all the unsolved deaths, perhaps you need to look at the police. NationMultimedia.com - Opinion | ||
| "Labour MP clueless on minimum wage price tag" | Kiwiblog By David Farrar The Herald reports: Labour MP David Clark has admitted he doesn't know how much it will cost employers if the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour, despite. Kiwiblog | ||
| Views split on minimum wage | Otago Daily Times Online News ... By Dene Mackenzie [image]Dunedin North MP David Clark and employer representatives are at odds over the costs and benefits of raising the minimum wage to $15, a possibility after Dr Clark's private member's Bill was drawn from the ballot last week. Otago Daily Times Online News - Business | ||
| Ekiti LG workers threaten showdown over minimum wage - The Punch By oayodele The NULGE, in a statement by the secretary of the union on Monday, Mr. Victor Adebayo, said it was unfortunate that the government which promised to pay the new minimum wage of N19,300 to all its workers since 2011, was yet to fulfill the ... The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely... | ||
| Prime Contractors to Monitor Subcontractors on Prevailing Wage ... By LCPtracker Increasingly prime contractors are finding themselves in hot water with the Department of Labor for their subcontractors' behavior. Recently, Lettire Construction Corp and 16 of its subcontractors were found to have violated provisions of the ... LCPtracker Blog | ||
| York Common Cents | Raise the minimum wage? Not so fast… By sean adkins Last week, more than 100 House Democrats agreed to co-sponsor a bill to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.50 to $9.80 per hour. In fairness, the federal minimum was has not been increased since 2007. Now, my guess is that many ... York Common Cents | ||
| All-Out Campaign Underway To Raise FLSA's Minimum Wage ... By Fisher & Phillips LLP We have previously reported on legislation introduced earlier this year to increase the federal Fair... JD Supra Labor & Employment Law | ||
| Word for word: ZACCI position on the new minimum wage and ... By Kabwe A lot of countries have minimum wages and ZACCI is not opposed to having a minimum wage for various categories of employment in the country. It is the Chambers expectation that such an initiative on the minimum wage should be able to ... Zambian Watchdog | ||
| Bus fares for all routes in Lusaka incresed due to minimum wage ... By Mwansa Bus fares on all routes in Lusaka have been increased by Six Hundred Kwacha. Bus operators have resolved to effect the increment after consultations and as a direct result of the minimum wage imposed in the country by the PF government. Zambian Watchdog | ||
| Overtime Labor Laws And Minimum Wages - Kazor.com World ... By Kazor News We represent individuals such as yourself across the country in overtime wage and hour claims. Our focus, commitment, and mission are to aggressively protect the rights of workers to receive "fair pay" for every hour of the work day. For more ... Kazor.com World Community News | ||
| Govt urged to help SMEs struggling with rising operating costs - The ... Govt urged to help SMEs struggling with rising operating costs. Dhurakij Pundit University Research Centre (DPURC) is calling on the government to step in because its study on the impact of the Bt300 wage hike in... NationMultimedia.com - Business | ||
| TheMoneyIllusion » A graceless and petty reply to Tyler Cowen By ssumner I also agree that sticky wages for the unemployed and new market entrants are not much of a problem (although as Paul Krugman showed with his $160000 lawyer example a few days ago, they are a bit of a problem even for new entrants.) ... TheMoneyIllusion |
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| 10 Facts About the Minimum Wage Today marks the third year minimum wage workers haven't seen a raise. While the price of just about everything else has skyrocketed (milk, eggs, health care, ... www.aflcio.org/Blog/.../10-Facts-About-the-Minimum-Wage | ||
| Federal Register | Medicare Program; Hospice Wage Index for ... This notice sets forth the hospice wage index for fiscal year (FY) 2013 and will continue the phase-out of the wage index budget neutrality adjustment factor ... https://www.federalregister.gov/.../medicare-program-hospice-... |
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