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NEW YORK (AP) — In the aftermath of California and New York becoming the first states to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15, some small businesses with hourly workers are rethinking how they can absorb the increase. The owners of Dog Haus, a chain of about 20 franchise restaurants in
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Walmart is giving more than one million of its employees a raise later this month as part of a plan that will lift all but its newest hires to at least $10 an hour.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour — the highest in the nation — as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders again seized on wage disparity and the plight of the working poor in their fight for the Democratic presidential
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STATE HOUSE — As a legislative committee heard testimony on the pros and cons of setting a $15 hourly pay floor for Logan Airport workers, its Senate chairman repeatedly described the day as an "awkward" moment for him, as both a supporter of the higher minimum wage and an
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Michael Hiltzik, a columnist and Los Angeles Times reporter, wrote an article titled "Does a minimum wage raise hurt workers? Economists say: We don't know." Uncertain was his conclusion from a poll conducted by the Initiative on Global Markets, at the University of Chicago's
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — After Boston Mayor Marty Walsh proposed studying a $15-per-hour minimum wage for the state's largest city, House Speaker Robert DeLeo has expressed reluctance to see such a policy become law. Facing pressure from a ballot campaign, lawmakers in 2014 hiked the hourly minimum wage throughout the
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While pressing for further action on Beacon Hill, airport workers in Boston plan to risk arrest on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as part of their push for a $15 hourly wage and union rights. According to Massachusetts-32BJ SEIU, a union with 18,000 members in the Bay State, workers
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BOSTON — Referring to his run for presidency as a "political revolution," 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) addressed a crowd of more than 20,000 supporters on Saturday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. "The media always seems to be asking me, 'How
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