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By almost any measure, minimum wage increases are flawed policy. Ohio should expand economic opportunities, not erect artificial barriers to job growth. A state Earned Income Tax Credit, based on the successful Federal program, would effectively give a raise to the low-income employees who need it most without putting their jobs in jeopardy.

Before North American initiated non-stop service to Ghana, the only option for customers was a lengthy connection via a European hub. Our non-stop service has reduced the journey time to this part of West Africa by a minimum of eight hours. Our customers have been extremely supportive of North American Airlines as the only U.S. airline to fly scheduled service to Africa.

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie -- but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

By increasing minimum payments, people will pay off credit cards, won't pay so much in interest and will have money left over to buy things.

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

Generally, the Federal Highway Commission will only fund the minimum height.

He's a person who would look forward to doing the things that Paul Wellstone wanted to do -- do something about health care reform, take care of the underprivileged by passing a minimum wage,

The WAC is on very solid footing to have a minimum of five teams participate in the postseason.

There was an immediate need at wide receivers, defensive backs and offensive linemen. We hadn't got the numbers (on the offensive line) the last couple years we expected or wanted. So I wanted to go in and get a minimum of five offensive linemen. Sewed that up early. That was probably our major emphasis. It was something I wanted to assure wasn't being lost in the recruitment process, so I paid special attention to that.

It's important to note that the initiative provides an exemption for small businesses. It's also been established that when minimum wages are increased, there is actually a savings to the employer because there's lower turnover rates and lower costs of training new employees.

It'll be a minimum of four to six weeks. He's got a dislocation.

It's a minimum of 12 of them here every night. They don't say 'good game' if I didn't play well. They'll offer advice. I like that.

It was a good thing to see. It really was less than a normal weekend. The years that I worked in uniform, gosh it seemed New Year's Eve night we'd have a minimum of eight or 10 arrests. Maybe people read the paper or used common sense and had designated drivers.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

Inevitably, whenever a minimum of rights is set, the other side pushes for those rights to be the maximum.

An honest day's work, deserves and honest day's pay, and this Congress must make one of its final actions before we adjourn, raising the minimum wage.

A nice well-equipped, state-of-the-art amusement centre of the type we have planned to develop will cost in excess of US$500,000 to get the minimum basic infrastructure to develop the park to its former glory... and we can't find the money, so we need help.

Arafat is not the target. This response is the minimum Israelis can do as an act of self-defense after the massive, vicious terror attacks on civilians.

And the High Commissioner for Refugees would say, 'Well, at the very minimum at the outset we should be prepared for a certain number of displaced persons or refugees. Let's have X blankets, X food.' On that basis they came up with this $37.4 million list.

And that's the average worker. The reality is that while every commuter is experiencing a financial hardship with increases in gas prices, those individuals earning the minimum wage of $5.15 per hour are being the hardest hit, with a whopping 11.3% of their salary being pumped into their gas tank annually.

Anybody who works should get at least a minimum wage. If employers offered minimum wage, Americans would do those jobs. American workers fought long and hard for a decent wage.

After years of hard work, Simmons is proud to be awarded this accreditation for our National Consumer Study. The NCS is a thorough measurement of the American consumer; from the products we buy, the brands we prefer and where we buy them, to our attitudes, lifestyles and the media we consume. Our adherence to the MRC Minimum Standards earned this accreditation and our commitment to quality will continue to earn our clients support.

As a minimum we have to get to the second round. After that, a ton of other goals will open up. This is what we want the people to understand.

The great thing about the fall semester coming up is that we are going to award a minimum of 100 new scholarships to students." ()

The Green Bonds proposal also has tremendous job creation potential, as it includes specific minimum job creation requirements for projects.

The first thing they recommended is replacing four-inch (mains) with a minimum of six inch,

The classic question always is: What's the minimum amount I need to do to enjoy the benefits of it. If you just walk 12 miles a week at a brisk pace, it's scientifically proven now that you will get some benefits.

The economy is a little bit stronger than the Federal Reserve's expectation. It gives them cover to raise interest rates with minimum risk of undermining sustainable growth.

The gas exploration companies pay a very high wage. People who are underemployed today will change jobs. Then they will turn around and spend that money in the city and in the county. There will be an impact, but I don't think it will change minimum salaries because the local business are not going to be able to compete with what the gas companies pay.

You've got to have a minimum of two options every time with the puck. If those options are gone by poor positioning by your teammates, you're in a pickle so you try to do things that just don't exist. We made some bad choices, not just him.

The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes.

The doctors have told him that it's a minimum of four to six weeks with no physical activity. Obviously, they'll continue to monitor and continue to gather information. Still, as of right now, we still do not have a definitive reason.

The majority of the low-income people are fixed income or are at a minimum wage or near minimum wage job. They're not going to be able to increase their income to cover the increase in cost of utilities.

Alternative minimum tax is a misnomer. It isn't an alternative, because you don't have a choice. And it isn't the minimum, because you end up paying higher taxes than you would have otherwise.

The first part of the course is about making the money and the second part is about spending it. What I see mostly is that students don't understand how loans work. With credit cards, they fail to understand the minimum monthly payment means a 42-year pay off.

The first time around with SOX, there was an imposed deadline and everyone scrambled to meet minimum compliance requirements. Now, it's time to look at the underlying systems and processes, and see how they can gain efficiencies from them.

The first thing guests see when they come to your home is the entry. This is the front door to your home. It should welcome everyone with simple design and a minimum of busy elements.

The CFCM must tackle the problem of training imams, but the state must also help us with a minimum of financing to create a training institute.

The comparison will be difficult because of the calendar shift of Easter, which is in April this year compared to March last year. That will have a big impact on the March numbers. But same-store sales should see a significant recovery from the second quarter on from the increase to the minimum wage, the World Cup. There will be many drivers.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

You can refi your car loan just like you can refi your mortgage. It's even easier and less expensive. There's no appraisal process, and fees are minimal for a new car title. A couple of caveats: Most lenders require that the car be less than five years old and have a minimum loan balance of $7,500.

I’ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill,

These guys going off the trail, seeking to get deeper into the backcountry and being lazy about it, disturb elk habitat. It makes a miserable experience for everyone, ... Starting your hike in the dark is absurd, because you're chasing elk out. You want to be walking into elk country when you can see them in your scope. There's no need to start walking until a minimum of 15 minutes before you can shoot.

These households have probably gone through budget shock -- as their balances have risen, the interest rates have also increased every few months and the minimum payment percentage has just increased. The average APR is now above 13%, so carrying that balance is getting very expensive. The average household is paying over $700 per year in interest for credit cards.

These households have probably gone through budget shock--as their balances have risen, the interest rates have also increased every few months and the minimum payment percentage has just increased. The average APR is now above 13%, so carrying that balance is getting very expensive. The average household is paying over $700 per year in interest for credit cards.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

These aren't high-paying jobs, but they are above minimum wage and have benefits. It has really added a nice diversity to the city.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

For a nation, I'm not sure why we value equity over excellence, ... All kids are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just those we're teaching to a minimum standard.

It's the only way to judge them, throw them in those games. We are required to play eight veteran players, and we'll probably have the minimum the first couple of games. As camp moves on, because we haven't played in a while, those last three of four games, I'd like to have the lineup kind of set.

The nuclear options that India insisted on protecting in this deal cast serious doubt on its declared policy of seeking only a credible minimum deterrent.

It's also good for the guys like me because now somebody has a little extra money and they can go after a veteran who might have gotten squeezed out in this. I'm sure the veteran minimum is going to go up, so guys like me can go out and get a one-year somewhere and feel good about the situation they are going into.

It's almost embarrassing what we pay substitutes. The bad part about $37 a day is that it's not even minimum wage and these are high quality people and we need to pay them more.

It raises questions about the stability of all the other walls. At a minimum we expect the Corps will reanalyze all the walls on the assumption that this same failure mechanism could occur elsewhere.

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wage.

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.

Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are concerned about the flow-on effects of the 25 per cent increase to the minimum wage being promoted by NZ First and the Greens,

It's not a perfect situation. The turf is hard. So, we try to keep pounding down to a minimum as far as running and excess. But you gotta do some of it.

That's 65 hours a week of work, ... When you divide that into the pay, it's often times less than minimum wage, so clearly that's not the primary motivation.

This meant an increase in some of the administrative challenges of the program. For example, we received a number of compensation requests that lacked pertinent information to process the claims, which can take considerable time to obtain. Some field investigation reports did not provide enough information to meet the minimum criteria for confirmed or probable claims, and some claims were rejected.

There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,

There's a significant amount of uncertainty about what's going to happen with the various tax provisions that are scheduled to expire and what's going to happen with the alternative minimum tax. Depending on how those issues turn out, our projections would obviously have to change.

Its assessment under the Fair Act is going to be a minimum of $16.5 million annually for 30 years. That $16.5 million is more than double a year's profit for this company.

We simply confirmed for city officials that the stadium would meet minimum seating capacity we require for the men's Final Four. We require a whole host of other requirements as well.

We went from showing up at a game with a minimum of 15 guys to actually rotating fresh bodies in and out to keep our guys at full speed.

We are trying to get (property owners) out far enough so they have reasonable access to the water but not so far they are building excessive encroachments into this public resource. It is the minimum necessary to provide reasonable access,

We are trying to narrow down to the minimum that we feel we need before we put a cost out there.

We don't use these numbers to make management decisions, because of the bias that's inherent in the number, not knowing how many we miss from year to year. These are a minimum count.

We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minimum wage so that our lowest wage earners can retain their purchasing power.

We felt that the circumstances of the cases warranted the minimum possible sanction under the rules and we're glad that USADA agreed.

It will be a minimum 14 days until power in Hattiesburg's most critical areas is restored.

It's a good idea because if you just make the minimum payment, you're in trouble.

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Those players who think they can stay here only giving the minimum amount of effort are wrong. I'm not afraid to take tough decisions if people don't give their all for this club.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires.

The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage.

A bid in the low 90s would be the minimum for Lycos because Lycos brings so much more to the table than Terra does.

It's generally recommended as a minimum you have 30 feet of break in the fuels around your home.

It looks like they're at a point where we can allow at minimum a temporary certificate of occupancy for most, if not all, of the facility. By the time they want to open for classes, they should be ready.

There's already been a considerable softening in housing demand which preceded the recent rise in mortgage rates. Which leads me to believe that the weakness at a minimum will continue, and may likely accelerate.

There's a state law that says they have to pay their employees minimum wage for 90 days ... We found out the day before yesterday that at the end of 90 days, we're all going to be terminated.

They're four crucial games for us. We are looking to win six points minimum out of these games. We have got to have 20 points on Boxing Day, including from Boxing Day - that's our goal. Then in January we have a chance to see if we can enhance our quality.

I barely make minimum wage, and it's hard every time the gas prices go up, I still have to pay for food and bills, so it's hitting everyone's pocketbook.

Come January first, you're going to see that your minimum monthly payment has increased. Your household's cash flow will diminish. That's the bad news. The good news is that at least you're paying down what you owe.

If consumers would simply maintain the minimum balance requirement, they wouldn't get hit with monthly fees and wouldn't bounce checks. You want to find a bank that has a minimum balance requirement you can meet.

I definitely think there are still a lot of animals that have the minimum score to qualify for the record book. Whether or not it is a new state record you never know, but those records are made to be broken.

I can assure your viewers that real minimum wages are not going to be cut,

If I have surgery and I have to sit out next year, I'd be done. Either he'll say this is going to heal up enough to pitch, or we're going to have to do surgery ù which I don't want to do. With surgery, I have no chance and I'll miss all next year because it's a minimum of 12 months.

I don't think any of us really put a lot of faith in (the construction grant). We'll proceed with the minimum plan as the funding for that is within our control.

I don't think the minimum wage change would have a lot of impact on grape growers.

He's not a bad kid. He's smart, scored well over the minimum on his GED and was looking for a job.

For our district, extending the AMT provision is very important. In Bergen County in particular, people pay extraordinary property taxes and state and local taxes, and they need alternative minimum tax relief.