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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's taken years, but in 2016, wages finally started to go up. NPR's Yuki Noguchi explains. YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE: The Great Recession ended seven and a half years ago, and job gains have been steady since. But the greater demand

CNN 2011-10-29

The campaign season is heating up. We are hearing some candidates and law makers talk about something called a flate tax. what is a flat tax? Well, the US currently has something called a progressive income tax system, means the more money you make,

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AS IT IS 2013-12-18 HM Plans to Raise Pay for Clothing Workers HM计划提高制衣工人工资 Welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Mario Ritter. Clothing workers around the world have demanded higher pay for the job they do. Now, a maj

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last Friday, President Bush called for an economic growth package -- a plan to give a quick shot of energy to the slowing American economy. Now, the administration has an agreement with Democratic an

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AZUZ: The Trump administration has made a new proposal concerning taxes in America. The U.S. treasury secretary calls it the biggest tax cut and largest tax reform in U.S. history. But analysts say there weren't enough details in the proposal to know

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Republicans in the House of Representatives released their plan for overhauling the U.S. tax code today, the most sweeping proposal of its kind in more than three decades. It was embraced quickly by President Trump and lawmakers say they aim to pass

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The government will bring back a lower starting wage for young people between the ages of 16 and 19. For the first 6 months of a new job, they will be paid $10.80 an hour. This is 80% of the adult minimum wage which is $13.50. In 2008, the Labour gov

CNN 2009-09-05

Hello! I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN center in Atlanta and here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. This morning's new jobless numbers are a little worse than expected. The unemployment rate jumped to 9.7% in August. That is up from 9.4% l

CNN 2011-09-12

That's right. It's the last day of school we hear on CNN student news. Manny? this is Corol Azoops. First up, President Obama's new jobs plan. Last night, the President unvealled the details of his plan to put more Americans back to work in a speach

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Hourly News 每日新闻 10:00 2011/09/29

China's first space lab module ready for launch China is now ready to launch its Tiangong-1 unmanned space module later this evening after injecting fuel into the Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket. The Long March-2FT1 is the latest model of the Long Mar

Hourly News 每日新闻 17:00 2011/09/29

Typhoon Nesat lands in south China Thphoon Nesat, the strongest to hit China this year, has landed in the southernmost island province of Hainan. Packing winds of 42 meters per second at its center, Nesat made landfall in the township of Wengtian in

Hourly News 每日新闻14:00 2011/09/26

Forecasts signal late-week launch of Tiangong-I Chinese space experts say weather forecasts show that Thursday or Friday might be suitable for launching the Tiangong-1 spacecraft, the prototype of China's space lab. The unmanned Tiangong-I is part of

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- President Barack Obama's economist team said on Thursday that the U.S. economy is recovering from the Great Recession at an increasing pace, but the stagnant wage growth posed threats to the lives of the middle- class.

Govt aims to close income gap with wage hike

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Hourly News updated 08:00 2011/10/29

EU bailout fund chief holds talks in China Head of the European bailout fund visited Beijing amid speculation that debt-stricken Europe is seeking help from the world's second-largest economy. Klaus Regling, chief executive of the European Financial

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China's top economic planner believes there is no chance the country will suffer from the recent slowdown. On the sidelines of the annual National People's Congress, Xu Shaoshi -- who heads the National Development and Reform Commission -- said China

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