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If there is no double counting, and if the incidents included in the data were reported correctly, their tally represents a
minimum
number, because media reports may not be comprehensive.
Nineteen states rang in 2017 with increases in their
minimum
wage.
Clinton – the most “establishment” of the contenders – has proposed introducing what is known as the “Buffett Rule” (named for the billionaire Warren Buffett, who coined the term), establishing a
minimum
effective tax rate for high earners.
Accordingly, countries can reduce health inequalities by introducing higher
minimum
incomes for their poorest citizens and guaranteeing universal access to public services.
At a minimum, Brexit would throw the EU into years of uncertainty.
It arbitrarily defines a
minimum
that must be paid to them in the short run, and forces the government to do whatever it takes to reach that goal, even if it means devastating the local economy.
China’s government introduced tough labor laws and a
minimum
wage in 2008.
Most American women are having a hard enough time on the factory floor or the unemployment line or making
minimum
wage at Wal-Mart; when working-class women hear a former corporate attorney carry on about a glass ceiling, they think not about gender identification but about the class divide that has widened since the term came into vogue in the 1980s.
At a minimum, civil-service jobs should be detached from political patronage.
The near-term policy remedies are clear: raise the
minimum
wage to a level that will keep a fully employed worker and his or her family out of poverty, and extend the earned-income tax credit to childless workers.
In the longer term, more radical policies – such as the introduction of a negative income tax or a basic income – must be considered, with the goal of providing a guaranteed
minimum
standard of living regardless of employment status and market wage.
All European countries then established a
minimum
income policy to help those whose benefits had run out.
If the US and NATO leave Afghanistan to its own devices without first creating a
minimum
of regional stability, it is all but certain that the Islamist danger will return in relatively short order, and will be greater than it was in the 1990’s.
So Merkel did the bare
minimum
– just enough to prevent a meltdown, but far too little to put an end to the Greek or the broader euro crisis.
In order to eradicate moral hazard, the system must have a resolution procedure to close banks when their capital falls below a
minimum
threshold.
A
minimum
42-day wait for the first payment has meant that some families have been left penniless for as long as six weeks.
Without that American military presence, war most likely would have returned to the region; or, at a minimum, Japan and South Korea would have developed their own nuclear deterrent.
At a minimum, a North American Commission or coordinating mechanism should be set up to begin the process.
Of course, for robotics and AI to appear in developing-country value chains, including services that rely on frontier technologies, a
minimum
set of specific skills and infrastructure will be needed.
So creditor countries, led by Germany, have sought to do the
minimum
necessary to keep the euro alive, while debtors have grumbled impotently about Germany’s insistence on fiscal austerity.
An alternative
minimum
tax was established, along with a slight increase in gasoline taxes, but both were so watered down that they barely add up to anything.
To simplify matters, it will be important to keep the number of negotiating parties to a minimum, perhaps by forming country groupings.
To expedite the CFTA, African countries could agree to a general
minimum
threshold of 20-40% for value addition and a maximum of 60-80% for non-originating material.
Daily commute times for low-income formal-sector workers often exceed three hours, and the average direct cost of transportation is equivalent to roughly two hours of work at the
minimum
wage.
A
minimum
of €40 billion ($45 billion) needs to be spent annually in the next 3-5 years; but even larger amounts would be justified to bring the migration crisis under control.
On the contrary, the outcome represents a significant victory for the Tea Party’s minions, whose purpose seems to be to reduce government obligations and expenditures to a bare
minimum
(some object even to having a central bank), and to maintain President George W. Bush’s outrageous tax breaks for the wealthy.
Automation and other technological changes, globalization, weaker trade unions, erosion of
minimum
wages, financialization, and changing norms about acceptable pay gaps within enterprises have all played a role, with different weights in the United States relative to Europe.
Reforms will need to include both increases in the retirement age and changes in benefits, especially the de-linking of the
minimum
pension from the
minimum
wage.
It guarantees a socio-cultural subsistence
minimum
by paying replacement incomes in the form of social aid, unemployment benefits, or early retirement benefits.
They establish “reservations wages” or
minimum
wage demands against the private economy that employers are increasingly unwilling or unable to satisfy.
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