Santa Fe Living Wage Network - In the Media
Living Wage May Not Increase in 2006, Albuquerque Journal, November 1, 2005 ... Living Wage Increases Local Spending, New Mexico Business Weekly, March 26, 2004 " ...
http://www.santafelivingwage.org/media.html
Golden Gate [X]Press : SF State Adjusts to Minimum Wage Increase
... Francisco, which has one of the highest costs of living in the United States, is ... a Consumer Price Index is published about the cost of living in San Francisco ...
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/life/000654.html
nwlaborpress.org | Minimum wage
Think again. Minimum wage: Common sense trumps conservative ideology. By TIM NESBITT ...
http://www.nwlaborpress.org/think_again/12-1-06Think.html
GMANews.TV - Daily minimum wage rates - Research - Official Website of ...
Granted additional P 10 Cost of Living Allowance. XII. WO 14/ Oct 8, 2007. 229.50. 212.00 ... House supports wage increase. 2008-08-29 18:38:28 " ...
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/89669/Daily-minimum-wage-rates
NEA: Reaching for a Living Wage: January 2006 NEA Today
... Association of New York, for example, won a 50 percent wage increase over three years. ... © Copyright 2002-2008 National Education Association ...
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0601/esp.html
Support for Living Wage Bill
... any evidence of significant job loss, increase in contract costs, and does not ... and no friend to minimum wage increases or living wage recently stated about ...
http://www.ksworkbeat.org/Issues/Support_for_Living_Wage_Bill/support_for_living_wage_bill.html
The Spokesman-Review.com - Increase in minimum wage unlikely
Tuesday, October 22, 2002. National. Increase in minimum wage unlikely ... almost automatically give themselves a cost-of-living raise every year, but not ...
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news-story.asp?date=102202&ID=s1239721
Technical Assistance for Employers MINIMUM WAGE Q&A
... 1, 2005, the Oregon minimum wage increases from its current rate of ... increase in the consumer price index translates into a minimum wage increase of ...
http://egov.oregon.gov/BOLI/TA/T_FAQ_Min-wage2004.shtml
Living Wage Case 2002 Submission - Australian Council of Trade Unions
The low paid need and deserve a decent wage increase. They need a living wage. ... the last 12 months wage costs as measured by the Wage Cost Index have risen by ...
http://www.actu.asn.au/public/livingwage/lwsubintro.html
Labor Cost-Cutting in the 1990s
... result, the minimum wage did not keep pace with the cost of living; from 1970 to ... The Impact of the Minimum Wage Increase: Federal Minimum Wage Goes Up ...
http://economics.about.com/od/laborinamerica/a/cost_cutting.htm
Recordnet.com: State minimum wage increase to drive up prices
Seven-fifty's not bad, but the cost of living is still high. ... menu item priced at $8, a 25-cent increase would cover the increased costs. ...
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/A_BIZ/612170301
Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Minimum Wage Increase Measure ...
... provided for a cost-of-living adjustment to the minimum wage on January 1st of ... because "I do not support automatic increases to the wage that relieve elected ...
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/templates/ademmain.aspx?articleid=292&zoneid=7
Measure 25 - Arguments in Favor
... 2002 Measure 25 which raises the minimum wage to $6.90 and adds a cost of ... The increase in the cost of living since 1999 means that minimum wage workers ...
http://www.sos.state.or.us/elections/nov52002/guide/measures/m25fav.htm
March 27, 2002
... the workers who lose their jobs because of the increase in the wage rate. ... is some favorable asymmetry: the living wage increases income for some, while ...
http://www.yale.edu/scipup/Notes/laborecon.html
Democrats want Carcieri to return cost-of-living increase | Politics ...
... also called on lawmakers, at the time, to freeze union-negotiated wage increases. ... received similar pay increases since 2002 deserve the same treatment ...
http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/political_scene29_10-29-07_447JST9_v16.22b252a.html
Effect of Wage Increase in W.V.
Closings & Delays Community Photos & Videos Living Schools Business Food Obituaries More... Thursday increases the nation's minimum hourly wage by 70 ...
http://www.whsv.com/westvirginiaap/headlines/25870299.html
2002 All County Information Notices
State Minimum Wage Increase And Fset Participation ... January 2002 Cost-Of-Living Adjustments That Affect The Cash Assistance Program For Immigrants ...
http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/lettersnotices/PG917.htm
Sun.Star General Santos - Wage board to tackle hike next month
... increase the salary of workers owing to the rising cost of standards of living. ... Wage Order No. SMR-10, last increased the minimum daily wage in May, 2002 to ...
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/gen/2004/07/29/bus/wage.board.to.tackle.hike.next.month.html
USATODAY.com - Living-wage movement takes root across nation
... also found that living-wage laws lead to pay increases that can outweigh those ... Though the laws lead to higher costs for businesses, employers are also divided ...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2002-07-22-wage-movement_x.htm
Marin Interfaith Worker Justice
Marin Living Wage. Background. Marin Co. 2008 LWO Report. Original Marin LWO - 2002 ... health benefits and the cost attributable to the required wage increase. ...
http://www.mariniwj.org/marinlivingwage/originalmarinlwo2002.html
20Businesses brace for minimum wage hike
With commodity, fuel and insurance costs hitting record highs, small-business owners are anxious about Thursday's federal minimum wage hike, which will require employers in 26 states and the District of Columbia to raise their base to at least $6.55.
http://biz.yahoo.com/hfsb/080919/071808_minimum_wage_increase_fsb.html?.v=13
Oregon mimum wage to rise to $8.40 on Jan. 1
Oregon's minimum wage will rise from $7.95 to $8.40 on January 1, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries announced today. The increase means an extra $936 a year for a family with one full-time minimum wage worker.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/09/oregon_mimum_wage_to_rise_to_8.html
Oregon’s minimum wage hits $8.40 in January
Oregon’s minimum wage is going up by 45 cents early next year. Beginning Jan. 1, the minimum wage jumps to $8.40 an hour.
http://www.spotlightnews.net/news/story.php?story_id=122158557184102900
State's minimum wage will rise to $8.40 per hour in 2009
SALEM — Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian says Oregon's minimum wage will rise by 45 cents to $8.40 per hour Jan. 1.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/BUSINESS/809170421
Oregon’s minimum wage increasing Jan. 1
Minimum-wage workers in Oregon will receive a 45-cent raise in January.
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/09/15/daily13.html?ana=from_rss
Minimum wage in Ore. going up to $8.40
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian says Oregon's minimum wage will rise by 45 cents to $8.40 an hour beginning Jan. 1. Avakian says Oregon's 143,000 minimum-wage earners make up 7.5 percent of the state work force.
http://www.kval.com/news/local/28485959.html
News highlights
Oregon's minimum wage will bump up 45 cents, to $8.40 an hour, on Jan. 1, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries announced Tuesday. The increase means an extra $936 a year for a full-time minimum wage earner.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1221609310234710.xml&coll=7
Valuable, voluntary and educational national youth service
Irrespective of who’s anointed at the presidential coronation in January, many more Americans will soon be performing national service, including compulsory military tours of duty in the never-ending War Against Terror and the soon-to-be-announced Wars Against Sedition, Starvation, Unemployment, and Internal Insurrection, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3767.shtml
County budgets face 11.5 percent decrease
Already strapped for funds, Ravalli County government department heads learned Wednesday their budgets for the 2009 fiscal year have been cut by 11.5 percent.
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2008/09/19/news/news40.txt
Study finds 'brain gain' as residents leave, come to NJ
New Jersey is gaining highly educated, high-income workers in their peak employment years, but losing lower-income residents who aren't working and find it too expensive to live in the state, according to a Princeton University study that researched New Jersey's migration trends this decade.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS0301/809180447
Top Scoops
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0809/S00238.htm
Top Scoops
I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0809/S00216.htm
TSX, Dow fall more than 500 points
U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy Monday, as nervous investors sent the Dow and TSX plummeting by more than 500 points. But Stephen Harper said Canadians should not expect a recession.
http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080915/lehman_failure_080915/20080915?hub=WinnipegHome
Races heat up in home stretch
Just 51 more days to go. Now that the Democratic and Republican faithful have returned from their national conventions, the Lowcountry's political season is beginning to boil. And even though most experts figure GOP nominee Sen. John McCain will win South Carolina with ease, the presidential race is stirring up the most passion — and the most activity — on both sides.
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/sep/14/races_heat_up_home_stretch54507/
Oregon minimum wage going up 45 cents an hour
SALEM (AP) — Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian says Oregon’s minimum wage will rise by 45 cents to $8.40 an hour beginning Jan. 1.
http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2008/09/20/news/local/5aaa03_minimumage.txt
