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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/sotu_n_2653324.html
The current rate took effect in 2009. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have higher minimum wage rates than the federal requirement. Washington state's is highest at $9.19. The proposal, which Obama made during ...
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/remarks-president-state-union-address
Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. (Applause.) We should be able to get that done.
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http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/05/06/state-senator-seeks-to-unearth-minimum-wage-bill/
State Senator seeks to unearth minimum wage bill. Post on May 6, ... Even since the last time the federal minimum wage was raised in 2009, the wage of $7.25 has lost approximately seven percent of its value. This morning's ...
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http://www.empowermagazine.com/the-federal-minimum-wage-debate-rehashes-among-economists-politicians/
In his State of the Union Speech in February 2013, President Barack Obama called to increase the federal minimum wage rate from $7.25 an hour to $9 by 2015. This objective has sparked a serious debate among ...
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http://www.equalvoiceforfamilies.org/communities-move-the-minimum-wage-will-the-federal-government/
The federal minimum wage, at $7.25, is impossible for a family to live on in most cities, even with two parents working full-time. In his State of the Union address in February, President Barack Obama proposed a federal ...
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http://wagehourdefense.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/the-campaign-to-increase-the-federal-minimum-wage-gets-legs/
The Campaign to Increase the Federal Minimum Wage Gets Legs. by Robert A. Boonin. The US Department of Labor is gearing up its campaign to increase the federal minimum wage. In his recent State of the Union Address, ...
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http://www.theliberaloc.com/2013/05/20/time-to-raise-the-federal-minimum-wage/
In his 2013 State of the Union address President Obama's called on Congress to raise the minimum wage. Subsequently Senator Tom ... Minimum Wage Act of 2013. It would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.
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http://www.merchantprocessingresource.com/2013/05/federal-minimum-wage-and-common-sense/
Federal Minimum Wage and Common Sense. May 15, 2013. By: Angela Bell. common sense pills I have never understood how our congressional elected officials could arrive at the conclusion that what is good for one state is good for all ...
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http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/12/obama-calls-for-9-federal-minimum-wage-pegged-to-cost-of-living/
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called for an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour. But he also went a step further, arguing that the minimum wage should ...
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http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/polinaut/archive/2013/05/no_minimum_wage.shtml
The current state minimum wage is $6.15 an hour but most workers earn the higher federal minimum wage. DFL Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk says he plans expect lawmakers to work on the issue over the interim.
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http://blog.workingamerica.org/2013/05/21/minnesota-legislature-adjourns-without-addressing-minimum-wage/
The 2013 legislative session in Minnesota will certainly go down in history, as that state became the first in the Midwest to approve marriage equality through the legislature. However, relief for over ... Legislators arrived at an impasse after the Senate passed its own minimum wage bill, which raised the wage to only $0.50 above the federal minimum and had no ties to inflation – meaning years upon years could pass without another increase. Outside the capital ...
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http://stillwatergazette.com/2013/05/17/bifurcation-a-common-sense-approach-to-minimum-wage/
The “or less” part is due to some exceptions under federal and state laws resulting in some hourly employees making less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Of these 93,000 workers, one-third were 15 to 19 ...
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http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/22/4250549/department-of-labor-pushes-for.html
The acting U.S. secretary of labor, Seth Harris, will be in Kansas City on Thursday to promote a White House proposal to raise the federal minimum wage.
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http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2013/05/10/minimum-wage-increases-for-2013.htm
The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 per hour. The last increase was in 2009. If an employee is subject to both the state and federal minimum wage laws, the employee is entitled to the higher of the two minimum ...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/obama-mitt-romney-state-of-the-union_n_2674086.html
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama argued in his State of the Union address that it was time to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour and peg it to inflation, so that "no one who works full time should have to ...
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http://nrn.com/government/regulation-nation-minimum-wage
The national conversation about the minimum wage resurfaced Feb. 12 during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, when he called for the federal minimum wage to rise from $7.25 per hour to $9 per hour ...
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http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/providence/minimum-wage-to-raise-to-8
Rhode Island's minimum wage would go up 25 cents to $8 per hour next year under legislation approved in the state Senate. ... The federal minimum is $7.25 an hour. Sen. Elizabeth Crowley says many people are forced to ...
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http://blogs.wpri.com/2013/05/24/chart-bipartisan-senate-group-backs-8-minimum-wage-in-ri/
The Rhode Island Senate voted 31-6 on Wednesday to raise the state's minimum wage from $7.75 to $8 an hour on Jan. 1, which would be the second increase in as many years. Massachusetts' minimum wage is already $8, while Connecticut's is $8.25; the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Among the 31 senators who voted for the $8 minimum were two of the chamber's six Republicans: Senate Minority Leader Dennis Algiere, R-Westerly, and Sen ...
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http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/05/08/minn-senate-to-vote-on-minimum-wage-bump/
Minnesota's minimum wage last rose in 2005, when it went to $6.15. Since then, the federal standard has catapult past Minnesota's rate and currently sits at $7.25 per hour. Many but not all minimum-wage workers in the state ...
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http://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2013/05/what-author-nickel-and-dimed-thinks-about-minnesota-s-minimum-wage
(In reality, the majority of Minnesota's hourly minimum wage workers are paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.) I told Ehrenreich of our Legislature's actions and then asked: .... Where 'tip credit' is allowed, the restaurant can only pay a lower minimum wage to a tipped worker if the worker makes enough tips to take home the higher of the State or Federal non-tipped minimum wage rate. For example, the Federal Government allows employers of tipped ...
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