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Raising the Minimum Wage in Hard Times
Updated / Summary The federal minimum wage was enacted during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery.The long-term fall in worker buying power is a key reason we are in the worst economic...
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Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC) National Diners' Guide 2012
New National Diners’ Guide from Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC) spotlights wage, benefits and promotion practices of the 150 most popular restaurants. Lists "responsible restaurants where...
View ArticleRaise Minimum Wage To Raise America
Holly Sklar Time flies when you're moving backward. With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009, workers now have less buying power than they did in 1997 at the start of...
View ArticleConsider the Source: 100 Years of Broken-Record Opposition to the Minimum Wage
In her Congressional testimony from 1959, Eleanor Roosevelt noted the repetitive quality of objections raised by minimum wage opponents over the previous five decades. More than 50 years later, it...
View ArticleNo Matter How You Look At It, the Minimum Wage is Much Too Low
If the current minimum wage had kept up with inflation since its peak in 1968, the federal minimum wage would now be $10.75 an hour. And if the minimum wage had grown along with workers' productivity,...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Same for Four Years
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the last increase in the federal minimum wage, on July 24, 2009. ... Rev. Stephen Copley, Director of the Arkansas Interfaith Alliance and chair of the national...
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