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    [pic] It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race‚ color‚ religion‚ sex‚ national origin‚ age‚ disability or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. Personal Information Date 4/15/2013[pic]8/1/11 Name Collins Falanda Jean Previous Name(s) N/A Present Address 200‚ cervantes village ‚ NM 88001 Permanent Address 200‚ cervantes village‚ NM 88001 Phone Number 575.805.8352 Alternative

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    INTRODUCTION The Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) of 2010 (Public Law 111-220) was an act by Congress‚ and became law on August 3‚ 2010 ( ). The FSA intent is to reduce the gap between the amount of crack cocaine and powder cocaine needed to initiate federal criminal penalties from a 100:1 weight ratio to an 18:1 weight ratio. The FSA also eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for the possession of crack cocaine (Reid 2012). The FSA replaced the controversial Anti-Drug Abuse

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    Tyler Spence Carriveau English 1301 November 5‚ 2013 Argument Rough Draft Do minimum wage workers deserve a better paying wage? Perhaps a wage that they are believed to be able to live off of? Will raising the minimum wage help those it really intends to? With unemployment pushing 8% nationwide and costs rising‚ nationwide people are pushing for minimum wage to be increased. The minimum wage was established by Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal in the 1930’s. The Fair Labor Standards

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    The Minimum-Wage Controversy The minimum wage sets a minimum on what employers are allowed to pay workers. In the United States‚ the federal minimum wage began in 1938 when the government required that covered workers in covered industries be paid at least 25 cents an hour. At that time‚ the minimum wage was about 40 percent of the average manufacturing wage. The minimum wage was raised occasionally‚ and by 1996 it had reached $4.25 per hour‚ which was only 33 percent of the average manufacturing

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    Minimum wage is defined as the lowest possible income that an employer can legally pay an employee. This ensures that all people are fairly paid and not defrauded by companies or businesses. Minimum wage is now a staple in 90 percent of countries in the world (Minimum). Even with these minimums‚ a person’s lifestyle is hard to maintain. Sustainability‚ in my opinion‚ is the ability to keep or maintain a certain amount of physical or mental property. In this light of sustainability‚ minimum wage is

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    Analysis on Minimum Wage in Indonesia “Comprehensive Negative Impacts Analysis of Minimum Wage for DKI Jakarta” [pic] Andhika Putra Sudarman 1106055822 Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia Depok “If the Minimum Wage of DKI Jakarta is set to Rp10.000.000‚00‚ will everybody prosper?” Laborers in DKI Jakarta demonstrating for an increase of minimum wage[[1]][[2]] is not a rare thing to see. The reason is because they can no longer meet their needs with their current wage. However‚ minimum wage has

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    Minimum Wage Fireworks were lit once the announcement surfaced the internet that President Obama stated‚ “Tonight‚ let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth‚ no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.” (Obama) He was looking to raise minimum wage during his State of the Union address. The average middle class person would be elated that minimum wage was going to rise. The amount of increase would depend on your location. I was one of those people would were excited

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    October 6 2013 News article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/us/politics/obama-pushes-for-increase-in-federal-minimum-wage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 American workers will have a 1.75$ increase in their hourly wage by the end of 2015‚ as President Barack Obama recently called to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour $9.00 an hour. This increase in the minimum wage of American citizen aims to help people with a low annual wage: cooks‚ employees of the janitorial industry and

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    1.0 Introduction According International Labour Organization‚ Minimum wage defines as the lowest basic wage guaranteed by the law as an attempt to put a floor under the wages of a particular subgroup of working population. The progress of minimum wages policy was started after the National Wages Consultative Council Act gazette on 15 September 2011. This provision replaced the Salary Determination Council Act 1974 which is seen not effective to protect the workers welfare in general. The provision

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    Should We Raise the Minimum Wage to the Average Pay Rate? April Alston Melisa Fennern Sharon Grady Nicole Huffman Terika White University of Phoenix BCOM/275 September 30‚ 2013 Michelle Maldonado “Should We Raise Minimum Wage to the Federal Average Pay Rate?” On the United States Department of Labor website it states that in 1938 it was decided that a federal minimum wage should be set. When it was set‚ it was set for the amount of $0.25 an hour. Now as of 2013 it is $7.25

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