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Working for Change: Raise the Minimum Wage
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Political Affairs, 08/25/2006
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Raise the Minimum Wage
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Working for Change
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Tony Pecinovsky, 08/25/2006
Five dollars and fifteen cents, the federal minimum wage (FMW), doesn’t buy much these days. With $5.15 you can almost buy two gallons of gas, almost go to the movies, or almost buy two burgers and a soda – at McDonald’s.
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Clara West, 08/25/2006
A group of wealthy out-of-state businessmen have financed a ballot initiative to turn back the clock on civil rights in Michigan. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to force the people of Michigan to vote on their divisive views this November 7th and misleadingly called their campaign the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
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Rémy Herrera, 08/25/2006
From an economic point of view, Cuba’s growth performance from 1959 to 1989 was far from bad – despite strong external pressure, especially from the US embargo. Between 1959 and 1989, the Cuban economy recorded an average growth rate in its annual gross domestic product (GDP) of almost 5 percent.
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Erwin Marquit, 08/25/2006
Globalization, as the term is generally used, refers to the extension of the production and distribution of goods and services on a vastly greater international scale than ever before.
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