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Drop all levels of authority, and the number of wage-earners will make the average change more than the number of executives affected.
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It sounds – and is – heartless about how downturns unfairly affect wage-earners.
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Treasury officials usually release the tables, which determine the take-home pay of millions of wage-earners, by mid-November because it takes payroll processors weeks to adjust their systems before Jan. 1.
Delays to Laura Saunders 2010
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Following the hearing, which stretches late into the night or the next morning, the lawmakers conclude, reluctantly of course, that there is strong 'public' opposition to cuts in government and that they, as conscientious legislators, have no alternative but to keep the government at its current size and, instead, close the deficit with tax increases on middle - and high-income D.C. wage-earners.
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 1, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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Democrats have argued for a "balanced approach" of spending cuts and revenue increases, and "shared sacrifice" from top wage-earners.
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This is in marked contrast to the opposite feelings that were engendered in non-union working-class people in that "Golden Age" of unionism -- the '50s and '60s when most wage-earners enjoyed an increase in their pay every year except in times of recession: "if the union members are getting good salaries, I should organize my workplace so all of us can get good salaries."
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: A House Divided Against Itself Joel Shatzky 2011
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Weaver, a former Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, said he would also like to add three new tax brackets for top wage-earners to make the income tax more progressive.
At-large council candidates debate budget, pay cuts, taxes and education 2011
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This implicit tax is steeply progressive, because the Social Security annuity formula is weighted in favor of low wage-earners and benefits paid to low-income retirees are exempt from income tax.
Retirement Policy 2009
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This is in marked contrast to the opposite feelings that were engendered in non-union working-class people in that "Golden Age" of unionism -- the '50s and '60s when most wage-earners enjoyed an increase in their pay every year except in times of recession: "if the union members are getting good salaries, I should organize my workplace so all of us can get good salaries."
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: A House Divided Against Itself Joel Shatzky 2011
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Democrats have argued for a "balanced approach" of spending cuts and revenue increases, and "shared sacrifice" from top wage-earners.
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