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Jul 1 2009
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Jun 17 2009
FOX Business Network
In the wake of the worst economy in decades, a new stimulus is scheduled to take effect next month -- one which will increase pay for about one of every 10 workers, increasing spending power by an estimated $5.5 billion -- yet one prominent...
Jun 13 2009
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Weekly
Some economic disputes seem destined to be decided in a political setting, and no amount of economic theorizing or empirical work will knock one set of opponents or the other off its position, at least not for very long.
Such is the case...
May 28 2009
Economic Policy Institute
Three-step increase in the
minimum wage is adding billions of dollars to consumer spending and stimulating
the economy.
Apr 1 2009
Black Enterprise
Raising the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour in 2010 is the latest
campaign by Let Justice Roll, a national coalition of religious leaders,
community activists, and business organizations. The federal minimum
wage--enacted in 1938--increased...
Feb 13 2009
Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service
In today's mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and our country like cash cows.
While workers across America were losing jobs, homes and health...
Jan 29 2009
Sun Reporter
Washington, DC - The leaders of 11 denominations and national faith organizations are among the inaugural...
Jan 16 2009
United Methodist News Service
Faith leaders across the United States have joined a national effort to increase the federal minimum wage to $10 by 2010.
The United Methodist Board of Church and Society is among a group representing 11 denominations and national faith...
Jan 15 2009
Episcopal News Service
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has joined with leaders of 15
denominations and national faith organizations as an inaugural signer of a...
