That hasn't been happening for minimum-wage workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2006] Reference

At present, Germany has no general minimum-wage level.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Workers' Wages Belie Country's Rebound] Reference

The problem is even more severe for minimum-wage earners.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2006] Reference

More than 60 percent of minimum-wage workers are women; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio Address Paper To The Nation On Minimum Wage] Reference

The minimum-wage debate is one where dire predictions were unfounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Soon To Panic] Reference

Frequently minimum-wage people, stay just for six months, eight months.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2001] Reference

The average minimum-wage worker brings home half of the family's earnings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minimum Wage Raise Benefits On State By State Basis] Reference

So, why are Democrats offering minimum-wage amendments to nearly every bill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2006] Reference

In central Harlem, 14 people apply for every single minimum-wage job opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Remarks On Affirmative Action] Reference

She's graduating in a week and has a minimum-wage job at her community center.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2003] Reference

Saddam ordered sweeping land reform, a health-care system and minimum-wage laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [SADDAM THE BUILDER] Reference

I think what happened here is you have minimum-wage people trying to fulfill quotas.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2008] Reference

Now I studied the arguments and the evidence for and against a minimum-wage increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

But against it is the reality that we have gone 10 years without a minimum-wage increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2007] Reference

After all, the average minimum-wage earner is a 16-year-old working in a fast-food store.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 25, 2007] Reference

CUELLAR: All these companies all have thousands and upon thousands of minimum-wage earners.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2009] Reference

I had to pay for any gas I used, so I only drove as far as my minimum-wage job could afford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ford tool to improve teen safety: MyKey] Reference

We don't enjoy living at the poverty level, but we can't see a minimum-wage job as the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Off The Welfare Carousel] Reference

The overwhelming majority of minimum-wage workers themselves get a raise within the first year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2006] Reference

Well, first of all, the vast majority of minimum-wage workers are not who we ` re told they are.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2006] Reference

We'd worry about getting laid off at any moment -- in tough times, minimum-wage jobs are the first to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Off The Welfare Carousel] Reference

But even in the minority, Kennedy successfully championed a minimum-wage increase and education spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rolling Back The Right] Reference

As we're creating these minimum-wage service jobs, we're not giving people opportunities to express their dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future of the American Worker] Reference

Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You recently issued your first veto over the minimum-wage push directed toward "big-box" retailers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daley’s Reign] Reference

The million dollars being spent on the study could turn 174 minimum-wage jobs into full-time living-wage jobs for a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph.D.: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Why NYC's People of Faith Must Take Up the Living Wage Fight] Reference

"A small fraction of minimum-wage workers are the sole breadwinner for their family," said Mr. Macpherson in an interview.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young and Jobless] Reference

To match the minimum-wage levels in other European countries, Germany would have to introduce hourly minimum pay of between.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Workers' Wages Belie Country's Rebound] Reference

As chair of the Aviation Subcommittee, we held hearings back in the early '80s about minimum-wage employees of screening companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2001] Reference

Clinton will still engage Congress -- on welfare reform, a minimum-wage hike and the defense of his cherished national service program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peso Bill's Bailout] Reference

Daley said the plan would crush development in the very neighborhoods, mostly black ones, which the minimum-wage bill was intended to help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daley’s Reign] Reference