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Fair Labor Standards Act.(Words in the News)(Brief article)
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(page 2) The FLSA regulates minimum wage, overtime pay, and workweek standards for most workers in the United States. It also prohibits hiring children under 14-years-old (except in some agriculture jobs) and regulates the jobs that people under 18 ca...
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Minimum wage increase gains strength nationally
Call & Post
; Advocates for an increase in the Ohio minimum wage now have a little more than two weeks to get the more than 332,000 signatures that will be needed to put the measure on the statewide ballot in November. But if their counterparts in other states are any indication, the coalition of labor and
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Raising the minimum wage.(GRAPH: NATIONAL)
New York Times Upfront
; The federal minimum wage has been the focus of intense debate ever since its inception during the Depression, in 1938. That year, the minimum wage was set at 25 cents an hour. It has been raised 19 times since, over the objections of opponents who say that higher minimums hurt job creation,
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Raise the minimum wage?
Jerusalem Post
; JONATHAN LIPOW Jerusalem Post 11-23-2005 Headline: Raise the minimum wage? Byline: JONATHAN LIPOW Edition; Daily Section: Opinion Page: 15 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 -- With an election campaign looming and Amir Peretz leading the Labor Party, it is a safe bet that you will be hearing a lot in
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Economist Predicts Little Effect from Washington State Minimum-Wage Hike.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 17--TACOMA, Wash.--A proposed minimum wage increase probably won't hurt Washington ... their purchasing power, he said. Visit TRIBweb, the World Wide Web site of the Tacoma News Tribune, at http://www.tribnet.com
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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STUDY SAYS RAISING MINIMUM WAGE WOULDN'T BE A JOB KILLER.(FRONT)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; Byline: Judy Newman Business reporter Raising the state's minimum wage from the current $5.15 an hour to $6.80 an hour would help workers earn enough to put food on the table without wiping out jobs, a report released Monday says. The study by UW-Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy bolsters a
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