Sentence examples for wage were increased from inspiring English sources

In "The Business of the Minimum Wage" (Economic View, March 3), Christina D. Romer argued that if the minimum wage were increased, the amount of money redistributed to and spent by low-wage workers would be minuscule in comparison with the overall economy.

One in five workers would get a pay raise if the minimum wage were increased.

The business/GOP argument that if the minimum wage were increased it will mean fewer jobs is demonstrably wrong.

But people over the age of 20 constitute more than 88percentt of the 30 million American workers who would receive a raise if the federal minimum wage were increased to $10.10 an hour.

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that if the minimum wage were increased to $10.10 in three steps of 95 cents over the next three years, in the third year more than 30 million workers would get a raise -- including 9 million workers earning between $10.10 and $11.05 per hour, who would see their pay increase due to the higher floor set by the new minimum wage.

The minimum wage was increased from £6.31 an hour for an adult to £6.50 last October.

Last year, Australia's minimum wage was increased by 2.6% to $16.37 per hour.

Senators also approved a measure urging the minimum wage be increased by $1 to $6.15 an hour over two years.

A government-appointed board last week recommended to the Labor Ministry that the minimum wage be increased to about $68 a month.

The minimum wage was increased to $1 per hour; the Social Security System was broadened; and in the spring of 1953 the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created.

To believe the reaction from some corners of the business world, you'd think economic ruin was certain if the minimum wage was increased to £8 an hour by 2020, as Labour leader Ed Miliband proposes.