Phasing in a minimum wage hike over three years is going to moderately accelerate that already-underway trend.
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Iowa Democrats plan to push through a minimum-wage hike that Republicans had stymied.
The damage from a minimum wage hike depends on the overall labor market.
States that had no state-level minimum wage were most affected by all three stages of the federal minimum wage hike.
In 2004, 71% of Florida residents supported a minimum wage hike, yet 52% still voted to re-elect President George W. Bush.
Based on telephone surveys, the authors concluded that the minimum wage hike significantly increased jobs for low-skilled, fast-food workers in New Jersey.
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But the minimum wage hike must be added to another costly Obama mandate on business: the health coverage mandate that begins in 2014.
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The administration plan for the wage hike was worked out in consultation with Democratic lawmakers who wanted to push for a larger increase.
Instead of relying on the factory's official union, each department elected two workers' representatives who negotiated on their behalf the wage hike that they wished.
Professors Even and Macpherson address this by using variation in state-level minimum wages to estimate the impact of the federal minimum wage hike on legal minimum wages in the states.
The data I report on the particular effects of the 2007-2009 minimum wage hike and the information on how it affected states like Tennessee are from a July 2010 study conducted by William E.
Meanwhile, the real wage bill moved down by 0.1% in February and slowed down to 4.1% growth year over year from 5.3% growth year over year in January and a 6.4% wage hike in December.
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But a series of studies in the 1990s including a famous analysis of fast-food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania by David Card at Berkeley and Alan Krueger of Princeton University challenged that consensus, finding evidence that employment in fast-food restaurants actually rose after a minimum-wage hike.
Overall, economists have become less worried about the job-destroying effects of a modest hike in the minimum wage.
By the spring of 1996, Clinton was on offense castigating Republicans for resisting a hike in the minumum wage.
Check the boxes: a hike in the minimum wage, manufacturing hubs, education, repairing roads and bridges, community investment, etc.
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Before they started, the researchers told some of the workers that they would get a seven-euro bonus, a 20% pay hike to the promised wage.
But starting with a hike in the minimum wage will at least make these difficult jobs pay enough for women and their families to survive on.
Either would blow a huge hole in next year's budget, already stretched because of a promised inflation-busting hike to the minimum wage and linked social-security spending.
While she favors a hike in the minimum wage and leans against fast track trade authority as a threat to state jobs, she "adamantly" favors a ban on partial birth abortions, is pro-life (with the usual exceptions), supports term limits and could support a Balanced Budget Amendment.
With the Bush-era tax cuts due to expire Dec. 31, the president forced Republicans to accept a hefty tax hike on the top 2% of wage earners.
The minimum wage has been increased twice during 2006 adding up to a hike of 25% over the course of one year.
Analysts said the majority's view suggested they would not hike unless demand-side pressures, such as wage increases, became a problem or in the case that mid-term inflation expectations deteriorate.
Lower capital investment in the U.S. means less wage growth, and so the people hurt most by this tax hike would be workers, according to a study by the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation.
Strikingly higher minimum-wage edicts have become the rage in emerging nations, with Thailand extending its hike to the rural regions.
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