US Senate backs wage rise
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The US Senate votes to raise the minimum wage by $2.10 per hour to $7.25 and cut taxes for small firms.
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The Democratic-led U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade and to provide billions of dollars in small-business tax cuts to help offset the cost.
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House leaders have added legislation raising the federal minimum wage to an emergency spending bill for the Iraq war. They hope to break a logjam with the Senate over the wage bill, a top Democratic priority that was once seen on Capitol Hill as a relatively easy compromise.
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U.S. private sector wage growth  should continue to accelerate in the months ahead on the back  of a healthy employment climate, according to a survey released  on Tuesday.
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Federal employees would receive a 3.5 percent pay raise next year under a bill approved by a key House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday.
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The push-and-pull over the 2009 federal pay raise is underway.
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The US Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a giant economic stimulus plan sought by the White House amid mounting fears that the world's biggest economy could be sliding into a recession.
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The Senate on Tuesday ignored a veto threat and easily passed legislation that would spend more than President George W. Bush wants this year for social programs including health care, education and job training.
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US stocks rose as a government report showed employers added almost twice the number of workers forecast in October. &quot;The report was a reconfirmation of the solid economic growth that we&#39;ve been experiencing
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday backed  a Democratic-sponsored measure that would give new labor  protections to airport screeners while seeking to address White  House concerns that federal authorities have flexibility to  respond to security threats.
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Just a few hours before Congress departed for its Memorial Day break, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved a bill that would provide a bigger pay raise for the troops, pump up management oversight at the Defense Department and guarantee union rights under a new personnel system.
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A $1.3 billion small-business tax cut package aimed at winning the first minimum wage increase in more than a decade advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday.
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The Senate voted Tuesday to approve a revised defense bill authorizing a 3.5 percent pay raise for troops while sidestepping a veto showdown with President Bush.
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The House of Representatives on  Saturday voted to gradually increase the federal minimum wage  to $7.25 an hour and also to cut estate taxes paid mostly by  the wealthy.
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The Democratsâ proposed minimum wage increase does not catch up with what some states have already done to raise the pay of tens of millions of workers.
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Fidelity Investments hasn&#39;t given up its opposition to a rule that requires the boards of mutual funds to have an independent chair, and the senior US senator from New Hampshire is backing that effort.
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Handing New York workers their first boost in the minimum wage since 1997, the state Senate yesterday overrode Gov. George Pataki&#39;s veto of a bill that will increase the wage by $2 over the next two years.