Sentences with phrase «full minimum wage hike»

Then there's Cuomo, whose position is that he could hardly have achieved passage of items like a Dream Act or full minimum wage hike this year with the G.O.P. - controlled State Senate he faces.

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The CUPE proposal suggests that there are only benefits and no costs to a higher minimum wage, but then caps the minimum wage hikes to a level where only single - earner full - time minimum - wage workers (with no other sources of income) cross the LIM.

After his re-election in 2014, Cuomo reinvented himself as a full - throated economic populist, pushing through a minimum wage hike and a paid family leave program, and unveiling massive infrastructure spending plans and a proposal for free public college tuition — though he has been light on details about funding.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan was cool to the potential of packaging a business - based tax cut with a hike in the state's minimum wage on Tuesday, calling for a «full - blown separate discussion» on the issues.