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2. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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   A thesis can also be used to point out the subject of each body paragraph. When a thesis essay is applied to this format, the first paragraph typically consists of a narrative hook, followed by a sentence that introduces the general theme, then another sentence narrowing the focus of the one previous. (If the author is using this format for a ...

3. Immiseration thesis - Wikipedia

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   In Karl Marx's early writings of the 1840s, he was influenced by David Ricardo's theory of wages, which held that wages tended down to a subsistence minimum. [1] As he wrote with Friedrich Engels in the Communist Manifesto (1848), "the average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage. i.e. that quantum of the means of subsistence, which is ...

4. Living wage - Wikipedia

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   Cost of a basic but decent life for a family [1] [2]. A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. [3] This is not the same as a subsistence wage, which refers to a biological minimum, or a solidarity wage, which refers to a minimum wage tracking labor productivity.

5. Causes of income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The deregulation of the labor market undermined unions by allowing the real value of the minimum wage to plummet, resulting in employment insecurity and widening wage and income inequality. [202] David M. Kotz, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , contends that neoliberalism "is based on the thorough domination of ...

6. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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   In 1989, Senator Edward M. Kennedy introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage from $3.35 per hour to $4.55 per hour in stages. [51] Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole supported increasing the minimum wage to $4.25 per hour along with allowing a minimum wage of $3.35 an hour for new employees' first ninety days of employment for an employer. [51]

7. California’s new $20 minimum wage could leave the state with ...

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   California implemented its $20 minimum wage law for fast-food workers on Monday, bumping pay up to 25% from the state’s $16 minimum. Impacting over 500,000 workers in the state, the mandate was ...

8. Universal Living Wage - Wikipedia

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   Universal Living Wage (ULW) is an ongoing campaign, launched by Richard R. Troxell, to revise the federal minimum wage and its random selection of a wage rate that causes economic homelessness across the United States. [1]

9. Minimum wage - Wikipedia

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   The minimum wage will price the services of the least productive (and therefore lowest-wage) workers out of the market. … the direct results of minimum wage legislation are clearly mixed. Some workers, most likely those whose previous wages were closest to the minimum, will enjoy higher wages.