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Minimum Wage Offer Interests Democrats« Thread Started on Ja

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Minimum Wage Offer Interests Democrats« Thread Started on Jan 6, 2007, 10:59pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Minimum Wage Offer Interests DemocratsBy JIM KUHNHENN Saturday, January 06, 2007WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats, eager to accomplish one of their biggest legislative priorities, said Friday they are willing to accept new tax breaks for small businesses that are being demanded by Republicans as part of an increase in the minimum wage."If it takes adding small business tax cuts to have a minimum wage increase, then we'll do that," new Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said emerging from a private meeting of Senate Democrats in the Library of Congress.The Senate strategy would differ from the House approach, where Democrats are pushing through a minimum wage increase next week without any extra provisions. The proposal would raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour over about two years. The last increase in the minimum wage was in 1997.read at source> http://www.casperstartribune.net/articl ... fd7c82.txt
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