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In 1992, Guess paid the Labor Department $573,000 in fines for those minimum-wage and overtime-pay violations, and things seemed to have quieted down a bit within the bulletproof-windowed, razor-wire-surrounded stone building that serves as the company's bunker ...
A few weeks earlier, during the minimum-wage debate (in which small business was once again singled out for favored tax treatment), virtually every opponent argued that raising the minimum wage could hurt small businesses--which create most of America's jobs.
It's a mistake for these countries to argue that having minimum-wage laws or regulations keeping corporations from running toxic dumps will wreck their chances of competing in the world market, just like it's a mistake for small businesses to argue that having a minimum-wage law in the United States does irreparable harm to them.
Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted "nay" on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.
He and his party learned the hard way that they were better off cooperating with Democrats on things the country wants, and trying to share the credit--hence the recent flurry of legislation passed with bipartisan support: welfare reform, health-care portability, and the minimum-wage increase.