27 March 2006
03.27.06 PA: Halfway on wage is not enough
As we wrote in January, a full-time worker making the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour, unchanged since 1997, earns $206 per 40-hour week and $10,712 per year. Those who support a child, a spouse or a parent while on minimum wage fall more than $2
08 March 2006
Wal-Mart, other large employers need to pay their fair share of health-care costs : The Morning Call Online
March 6, 2006 Editorial in favor of fair share
27 February 2006
Pocono Record - Minimum wage should be a living wage
February 26, 2006 Editor, the Record: I just read the Feb. 17 letter to the editor about the minimum wage and why the government should not raise it. I wonder if the writer has ever had to live on that minimum wage.
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