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A couple of generations of school kids have grown up on the catchy McDonald’s advertising jingle, “You deserve a break today.” But during every working moment of those years McDonald’s workers have gotten anything but a break when it comes to working hours and worse, their wages for those hours. The Bureau of Labor Statistics […]

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McDonald’s might finally have figured out that paying its low-wage workers more would actually be a good thing for McDonald’s. McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson recently suggested his company would support a bill, proposed by President Barack Obama, raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from $7.25. Such a wage hike likely wouldn’t satisfy […]

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers Wednesday approved raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the highest for any state in the country and the same rate that President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who recently appeared with Obama and several New England governors […]