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For seven decades, the United States safeguarded a global framework, which – however imperfect, and regardless of how many mistakes the superpower made – generally guaranteed a
minimum
level of stability.
Lines will need to be drawn, but wise leaders will focus on cooperative diplomatic solutions, playing military cards to the
minimum
extent possible – and perhaps repeating to themselves the AA serenity prayer before creating expectations that they cannot meet.
Indeed, throughout the eurozone crisis, Germany did the absolute
minimum
– and always at the last possible moment – to assist its EU partners.
Indeed, apprentices should be compensated at least at the
minimum
wage rate in a given occupation.
Voter initiatives in several cities have also resulted in significant increases in the
minimum
wage and other worker benefits.
Beginning in mid-2016 in California and Washington, DC, ballot measures to raise
minimum
wages passed with overwhelming support.
Poor regions want to use federal resources to ensure that their residents have a
minimum
standard of living; richer regions want to invest money in industrial development, hoping such development will spark a revival that lifts the entire economy.
When a woman is caught, although she is often a non-violent first time offender, she faces a harsh mandatory
minimum
sentence.
Between 1991 and 2000, twelve Latin American countries adopted legislation requiring
minimum
percentages of women on the party lists used for the election of national legislators.
When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a
minimum
level of women’s representation across all parties and districts.
The fourth test is one of proportionality: Are the scale, duration, and intensity of the proposed military action the
minimum
necessary to meet the threat?
At a minimum, Western governments and corporations should not be complicit.
If citizens had access to current air-quality data, they could choose to take protective measures, such as minimizing physical exertion, staying indoors (ideally in filtered air), and wearing a mask (an N95-rated mask, at a minimum, not a surgical mask).
But this constant need for reassurance, for the limiting of risk and involvement to the
minimum
necessary, provokes a fear that at some point Germany and others will judge their partners’ assurances insufficient and the risks run in helping them intolerable.
The world as a whole might agree on a weaker, but globally acceptable
minimum
standard, say a term limit of no more than 20 years.
At a minimum, the ECB will probably need to match the $1 trillion annual US rate of quantitative easing, and front-load much of it.
Beyond advocating higher
minimum
wages, some are calling for “reverse income policies,” with governments imposing across-the-board wage increases on private employers – a move that would drive up prices and defeat deflationary expectations.
They also estimated a
minimum
level of investment, below which funding would never be sufficient to build a fusion power plant.
Some teachers have admitted off the record that they teach the bare
minimum
in class, so that they can profit from the same students in private lessons.
Consider this: A group of major companies based in various EU countries – the likes of Tesco, Shell, Barilla, and Philips – are insisting that whatever its final size, the MFF deal should commit to a proposed
minimum
of 20% of spending in 2014-2020 on green and low-carbon growth.
Finally, skepticism persists with regard to the Mexican economy’s capacity to achieve sustainable 4-5% annual economic growth – the bare
minimum
needed to ensure long-term prosperity.
In the past few years, we’ve been in the deepest and longest
minimum
of a Schwabe cycle since satellite measurements began.
The establishment of an EU-wide
minimum
wage would send a strong signal to citizens that Europe is a social reality.
As the
minimum
wage is increased, employers’ incentive to substitute equipment or more skilled employees strengthens.
This reduction in the demand for low-skilled workers could be offset by taking into account the hourly equivalent of transfer payments when calculating the
minimum
wage.
For example, someone who receives $8,000 a year in transfer payments (such as food stamps, housing assistance, and the Earned Income Tax Credit) might be deemed to have received the equivalent of $4 an hour toward meeting the
minimum
wage.
The island must also comply with the federally mandated
minimum
wage, despite an income level about half that of the poorest US state.
A rule of thumb is that a
minimum
wage that is above 55% of the median wage will impede job creation (and economic growth);Puerto Rico’s
minimum
wage is 77% of the median, owing to the federal mandate.
A family of three with one wage earner at the
minimum
wage can take home about $1,100 per month, while it could get about $1,700 on welfare.
Such sanctions should begin to be imposed when governments fail to meet
minimum
requirements for attaining medium-term objectives.
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