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| published Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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Since about 1980, the federal government has adopted a tortoise's pace
in increasing the minimum wage, and increases in the minimum wage have
failed to keep pace either with inflation or with growth in average
wages. However, there is a hare — rather hares — in this race too, with
interesting lessons emerging.
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| published Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
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Families all over the US have an additional reason to celebrate July 24 this year and for the next two years. This is the day we will finally see a long-delayed increase in the minimum wage. Our grandparents’ generation first enacted this moral principle in 1938 to reflect the basic American value that an honest day’s work deserves an honest day’s pay.
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| published Friday, March 16, 2007 |
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is being used by the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry to justify its proposal for yet another huge tax cut.
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| published Friday, February 16, 2007 |
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when a public entity like Latah County picks a buyer for a bankrupt facility like latah Health Services?
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| published Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
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recently and enacted a living wage standard, becoming the first — hopefully just the first — city in Idaho to do so.
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| published Friday, March 24, 2006 |
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Members of the Idaho Community Action Network (ICAN) turned out
to the Statehouse on Thursday, March 23 to testify in support of a proposal to
raise Idaho’s minimum wage by $1 and index it to inflation. Despite
strong testimony in support of the proposal, the House State Affairs
Committee voted 12-5 to kill the bill. The minimum wage in Idaho has not been increased for more than ten years.
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| published Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
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Will we make the necessary investments and fix our ports before there is another national calamity?
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| published Monday, February 20, 2006 |
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to keep up, in part because we no longer use tax policies to invest in strengthening the middle class.
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| published Sunday, February 05, 2006 |
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address included a long list of proposed public investments. However, since he failed to "put his money where his mouth is," it was just hollow talk.
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| published Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
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Taking stock of consequences that have followed from policies pursued 10 years ago, 5 years ago, last year can help us assess where we are now and where we need to go.
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