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By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 watch Living Wage report Lawmakers in the Midwest U.S. city of Chicago have approved a measure requiring large-scale discount stores to pay their employees a so-called living wage. As VOA's George Dwyer

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(七月)

NOEL KING, HOST: A basic principle of economics is that when demand for something goes up, the cost of it goes up, too. So economists wonder why today's high demand for workers isn't translating into bigger increases in pay. Even Federal Reserve Chai

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Mike Procter. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 Many people do not know about

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Demonstrators across Asia are renewing demands that Japanese leaders give justice to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Hundreds of people have protested in front of the Japan Interchange Association in Taipei, demanding the Japane

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The 2nd of December is International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. It was on this day in 1949 that the United Nations passed an anti-slavery resolution. This was titled the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Explo

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今天我们要学的词是 wage. Wage 作为动词,有发动的意思。A top CIA expert on Asia said that China is waging a quiet kind of cold war against the United States. 中央情报局一位亚洲问题专家说,中国正在对美国发动一

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by Michael W. Flynn First, a disclaimer: Although I am an attorney, the legal information in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for seeking personalized legal advice from an attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Further, I

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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

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 09 August 2007 Mauritania's legislature has approved a law that will criminalize slavery. Anti-slavery lobbyists say enforcement will determine if this law can end slavery in the West African country where it has continued despit

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AS IT IS 2015-06-14 The Living Wage Debate Has Many Sides Workers and employers around the world argue over the issue of a minimum wage. Workers says they want to receive a minimum living wage that permits them to meet the most basic needs of life su

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By Phuong Tran Nema, Mauritania 01 August 2007 In the West African country Mauritania, the newly elected government is debating a proposed law that would criminalize slavery by up to 10 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines. Even though i

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Labor Advocates Celebrate Los Angeles Wage Victory LOS ANGELES Los Angeles is about to become the largest American city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, an increase to be phased in over five years. The wage is more than twice the current min

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The Gender Wage Gap In The Arts STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We heard a lot during the presidential campaign about the wage gap, the fact that women often earn less than men for the same kinds of work. Hillary Clinton pushed that issue, and she lost. But it

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As the war neared the end of its second year, more than one hundred battles had been fought, with many thousands of men wounded and killed. And still, neither side was winning. In the North, it became harder and harder to find men who were willing to

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Todd: So Greg, we're talking about controversial issues and one of the issues in your book is income disparity. So, what do you think about minimum wage? Greg: Minimum wage. Minimum wage I think is very important to have otherwise employers are going

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BEIJING, Feb.?9 (Xinhuanet) -- The government aims to raise its minimum wage at least 13 percent each year from 2011 to 2015, according to a national employment promotion plan released on Wednesday. China raised its minimum wage by an average of 12.5

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By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 19 July 2006 watch Minimum Wage report U.S. law has guaranteed most workers a minimum wage since the 1930s. The last increase in the wage was in 1997. Now Democrats in the U.S. Congress say it's time for another raise.

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Ruby Jones. Voice 2 And Im Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 3 It was very difficult to disput

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Todd: So Greg, we're talking about controversial issues and one of the issues in your book is income disparity. So, what do you think about minimum wage? Greg: Minimum wage. Minimum wage I think is very important to have otherwise employers are going

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a daughter of the horseleech
aventricular
base system
bevel gear
boiling water experiment
Brent Oil Field
buying power index
cavity boundary
center of mean distance
chain store
change spur gear
Charra
Chiriguana
class ii malocclusion
clipper ships
coal miner
convex-end electrode
Corse, Région
coveneys
Dal'nyaya, Gora
datasheet font
deste
digestate
doumit
ellis-jaffe
fabric collector
flemming
Fucus crispus
genophore
H scan
Harhiraa Gol
have fun with
head comic
hemotherapeutics
hexagonus ixodes
high velocity armorpiercing rocket
Histalon
hot air sizing machine
hydrotaea taiwanensis
hyperdefensive
incomplete part of branch
intrinsically safe
involatile substance
irrelevant
jelly bellies
Kilmacolm
linear term
lord justices
Low leakage current
main optic center
man-machine cooperation
maoyancaosu
mechanism of catalysis
mellte
molophilus (molophilus) editus
multiple slip
natural repair
navigation system reliability
nonmercurial
object relation
offence of fleeing
osteodentin
pequi
perpetual pension
pilot-plant scale
polyplasmia
psychocatharsis
railways
rate of on-schedule runs
REJ
ringing circuit
Riviere-du-Loup
rr. oesophagei (a. thyreoide? inf.)
sensitivity of smoke detector
serve the soup
sextuplicated
shake something up
SIGMAP
social marginal cost
sola draft
St. Clair Shores
staphylococcal clumping test
star grain propellant
Surplus Spending Unit
svl
systempunkt
tape delay
Throw a monkey wrench into the works
to discolor
tourist floater
transformed cell
transformer area
triodontoid
tryal
U-galena
valorises
Villar de Ciervo
von Dyke process
w.o.w
xylosazone
yellowish eosin