Article: Minimum wage hike proposed

Article: Raise state's minimum wage, New ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 9, 2004 ;     691 words ... ... Business News Nov. 9--New Jersey's minimum wage -- $5.15 an hour ... Perspective, about 75,000 New Jersey workers make the minimum wage or in some cases less ... 4.25 an hour, the New Jersey minimum wage was increased to $5 ...

Article: Why New Jersey should raise the minimum ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... cases. So why is the minimum wage in New Jersey the same as it is in those states? New Jersey's minimum wage is the same as the federal ... in the early 1990s when New Jersey's minimum wage was the highest in the ...

Article: New Jersey Workers Say Small ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... workers who now earn New Jersey's minimum wage, $5.05 an hour ... his drive to increase New Jersey's minimum wage to $6 an hour by July ... proposed $5.15 federal minimum wage could help New Jersey, because the minimum ...

Article: New Jersey Firms Fear Rise in State Minimum ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... House and Senate. New Jersey's minimum-wage workers last got ... state's last minimum-wage increase, the New Jersey Retail Merchants ... restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania ... comparison because the minimum wage there had remained ...

Article: New Jersey pushes new minimum wage ...
University Wire;  April 15, 2005 ;     571 words ... ... resulting in a new minimum wage no lower than ... a stand for New Jersey workers ... essential that New Jersey workers have ... Boosting the minimum wage increases promises ... a permanent New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission ...

Article: Acting New Jersey governor discusses raising ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... wants to raise the minimum wage, but he offered ... doing business in New Jersey. His speech in ... said how much the minimum wage should be. "That ... The current minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. New Jersey Business and Industry ...

Article: New Jersey governor, activists agree on ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... necessarily believe New Jersey's minimum wage is a living wage ... president of the New Jersey Business and Industry ... Association, said a minimum-wage increase could ... higher next year. New Jersey's minimum wage was higher than ...