minimum-wage
[min-uh-muh m-weyj]
minimum wage
Origin of minimum wage
First recorded in 1855–60
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Contemporary Examples of minimum-wage
Three days later, BrewDog's operation manager offered him a minimum-wage assistant brewer position.
Because that minimum-wage hike was a project of the federal government, and that means that you-know-who was for it.
And yet this same Arkansas electorate voted nearly two-to-one to back a minimum-wage increase.
By contrast, a minimum puts a floor under wages—for minimum-wage workers and for those who earn just above the minimum wage.
Minimum-wage legislation would no longer be needed as it would be established via this Job Guarantee program.
Historical Examples of minimum-wage
Now I studied the arguments and the evidence for and against a minimum-wage increase.
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