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Jul 23 2009
NPR Morning Edition
Jul 23 2009
Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service
Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you're a minimum wage worker...
Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you're a minimum wage worker...
Jul 23 2009
Atlanta Progressive News
The federal minimum wage is set to increase Friday to $7.25 per hour. The Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign said in a press release this week that the increase is good but not enough. Their campaign calls for a $10 minimum wage in 2010....
Jul 22 2009
Let Justice Roll
Summary
- Recent minimum wage raises are too little, too late.
- The minimum wage is a poverty wage instead of an anti-poverty wage.
- The minimum wage sets the wage floor. A low minimum wage...
Jul 22 2009
Minimum wage raises have been so little, so late that even with the increase to $7.25 on July 24, workers will still make less than the $7.93 minimum wage of 1956, adjusting for inflation. It...
Jul 22 2009
Metro Latino USA
Minimum wage raises have been so little, so late that even with the increase to $7.25 on July 24, workers will still make less than the $7.93 minimum wage of 1956, adjusting for inflation.It would take $9.92 to match the buying power of the minimum...
Jul 20 2009
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Jul 20 2009
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Jul 19 2009
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The final installment of a three-part increase in the federal minimum wage is proving to be the most controversial.
Two previous wage hikes, one in 2007, the other in...
Jul 19 2009
Tuscaloosa News
A coalition of faith leaders and community partners, called Let Justice Roll
is calling on Congress to raise the minimum again in 2010 to $10 an hour. The
grass roots organization claims this will move us closer to the goal of the
“minimum...
