Similar words: minimum, minimal, minimize, minimalist, optimum, maximum, wage, wager. Meaning: n. the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law.
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31. For example, although they raised prices as the IMF wished, they insisted on minimum wage requirements.
32. Day believes it will provide greater predictability in economic development efforts if all communities in Arizona have the same minimum wage.
33. A typical minimum wage job is as a clerk or short-order cook in a fast-food restaurant.
34. Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
35. But recent studies suggest this category makes up less than 12 percent of minimum wage workers.
36. As a result of this foolish ambivalence the Government is in danger of wasting the credit it deserves for the minimum wage.
37. The typical minimum wage worker is a teenager from a middle-income family earning extra money for personal expenses.
38. Theoretically, the commission could increase the minimum wage before the election.
39. They were mixed in age and race, but all favored raising the minimum wage in Tucson.
40. Countless Labour candidates spent the election defending their passionate commitment to a statutory minimum wage and workers' rights.
41. Another is a proposal to raise the minimum wage(sentencedict.com), which could motivate blue-collar Democrats in key areas.
42. With a minimum wage this nursery would no longer have been financially viable.
43. So one perennial idea getting a second wind is the campaign to raise the pitifully low current minimum wage.
44. Does he also agree that a minimum wage and higher taxation would lead to even greater unemployment?
45. He defends prevailing wage laws for skilled construction workers and supports increasing the minimum wage.
46. Many economists argue raising the minimum wage simply means higher unemployment among the very people such a measure is trying to help.
47. Most garment workers make minimum wage, and some shops try to circumvent that.
48. Mr. MacGregor I am also aware that the Opposition's proposal for a national minimum wage would destroy many part-time jobs.
49. Other economists say raising the minimum wage would have negligible effects on employment.
50. The departments which employed men were paid above the minimum wage and men's jobs were invariably classified as more skilled activities.
51. A renewed effort to raise the minimum wage, for instance,[http://sentencedict.com/minimum wage.html] may come from Sen.
52. And Feinstein had voted for an earlier version when it was coupled with a minimum wage increase.
53. Just over 81 percent of all minimum wage workers are white in a population that is 84 percent white overall.
54. But in 1989, when the minimum wage was last raised, Dole joined the strong bipartisan support for the action.
55. Fifth, it offered targets, such as the minimum wage, that were impossible to defend in the current climate.
56. As a practical matter, the minimum wage is irrelevant to people at the bottom of the wage scale.
57. She saw low pay as the root of the problem and from 1896 began to campaign for the legal minimum wage.
58. Trade Unions are proposing a hike in the minimum wage.
59. Unions have asked that the minimum wage of 145 pesos a day be raised as much as 35 pesos.
60. The Senate vote marked the end of a long and contentious battle over the minimum wage that began last year when Sen.
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