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Opinion The Bare Minimum (Wage)
As Congress stalls yet again on measures to raise the unconscionably low federal minimum wage, states are instead leading the charge. In New Jersey, even as voters overwhelmingly gave Governor Chris Christie a second term, they disregarded his position on the issue and approved an increase to $8.25 an hour. This year alone, four other…
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Opinion The ‘Unsavory’ Among Us
My neighborhood association is disturbed by a recent and ongoing surge in the number of “unsavory” people who use the neighborhood’s plentiful benches for sleeping. It proposes installing bench railings every three feet, which would render stretching out for sleep impossible. In 1968, the federally established minimum wage was $1.60 an hour. That works out…
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Opinion Raise Minimum Wage and Protect Workers Rights
The minimum wage was created in 1938 to help reduce poverty. Today that goal has been abandoned, as Congress has resisted raising the minimum wage to keep up with the cost of living, and millions of full-time workers are unable to make ends meet. A person paid the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour…
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Breaking News Jewish Leaders Join Minimum Wage Campaign
Jewish clergy joined religious leaders of several faiths at a breakfast meeting to discuss the need for a higher minimum wage in New York. Organized by a non-partisan advocacy group Working Families, the Faith and Clergy Breakfast was intended to gather support for the campaign for raising minimum wage, and specifically for a rally being…
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