We need a level playing field and that includes our tipped workers.
For more than 20 years, the minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $2.13.
We can make work a way out of poverty again by raising the minimum wage--one of our Nation's simplest and most effective...
When it is fully implemented, the minimum wage will no longer be a poverty wage.
Momentum is gathering in favor of a higher minimum wage, and it is coming from the grass roots.
Will that put her above the poverty level?
It is important that they be aware of the impact of fees on the bottom line.
I absolutely do not think there is any principled reason why we should not require that disclosure.
Absolutely. And that is driving down costs which means helping people have more secure retirements.
So I want to ask, is there a principled reason why we should not require the same kind of disclosure for IRAs?
there was little or no employment response to increases in the minimum wage.
It's like telling someone hit with a disaster in Boston that they have to move somewhere out past Worcester if they want...
The sky did not fall because we guaranteed workers a minimum level of basic economic security.
there was no adverse employment effect from wage differences.
any adverse employment effect would be, 'of a small and policy irrelevant magnitude.'
I really think getting more small employers into retirement systems is the key to getting more employees into retirement...
It sounds like such a small point, but getting not just disclosure, as you rightly say, Mr. Hiltonsmith, disclosure that...
we will offer certain choices to Foreign Minister Lavrov and to President Putin through him.
