Sentences with phrase «debate over the minimum»

We employ 45 people in three locations and more than 80 percent of them are hourly — which puts me right smack in the middle of the current debate over the minimum wage.

He's acknowledged that the debate over the minimum wage will likely be a part of end of the session talks, but has not listed it as one of his top priorities.

(A Walmart spokesman says the company «played no role» in the debate over the minimum - wage legislation and has not applied for the tax credit.)

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Furthermore, over the last year a debate has raged in the U.S. over rises to the minimum wage.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

The national debate over whether to raise minimum wages has stirred interest in where American companies stand on the issue.

There is little doubt that the debate among Arsenal fans over Arsene Wenger being given another contract extension will rumble on, and surely flare up again after the first sign of trouble next season, but for now it has died down to a minimum with Arsenal fans simply hoping that the Arsenal board has made the right decision.

And he framed the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage — currently $ 7.25 — as a sort - of trickle - up economics.

A new debate is brewing between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the minimum wage.

DeFrancisco noticeably got under Cuomo's skin during the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15.

On Oct. 28, Grimm and Recchia faced each other in their final debate before Election Day, fighting over issues such as immigration, the minimum wage and transportation.

And, as the party's state director Bill Lipton writes in a fundraising email, the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 is now at the forefront of the national political dicussion.

The growing divide is crystallized in the debate over raising the state's minimum wage.

The middle ground is a particularly familiar place for Governor Andrew Cuomo - and it is where he has put himself in the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage.

Mauro's leadership at FPI since 1993 has been essential to its development as a credible and effective advocacy organization that helps to shape the debate over key economic and fiscal issues in ways that ensure a voice for working people — from middle income homeowners struggling with high property tax bills to those families whose breadwinners toil in minimum wage jobs to the involuntarily unemployed.

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While there have been major debates this year over Cuomo's plan for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and a family leave policy, talk about workers» compensation has been relatively muted — perhaps because of its complexity and number of moving parts in the system.

The announcement comes after months of heated debate over the potential adoption of a new «living wage» bill that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than minimum wage.

June 29, 2014 • The debate over the federal minimum wage, which raised to $ 7.25 in 2009, is playing out across the country.

The debate is currently raging in the U.S. over whether to raise the minimum wage and by how much.

As debates wage over the minimum wage in our country, people are still taking low paying jobs in order to try and make ends meet.