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Monday, July 31, 2006

House OKs bill increasing federal minimum wage / Future uncertain -- its fate is linked to estate tax cut plan

House OKs bill increasing federal minimum wage / Future uncertain -- its fate is linked to estate tax cut plan
By Carl Hulse
The House approved an increase in the federal minimum wage today, but its future was clouded because Republicans tied the pay change to an estate tax cut that had been blocked in the Senate. In a prelude to a summer of campaigning in the battle for...

 



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