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No mandated minimum wage pay boost for Arizonans this year

Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services//September 17, 2015//[read_meter]

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No mandated minimum wage pay boost for Arizonans this year

No mandated minimum wage pay boost for Arizonans this year

Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services//September 17, 2015//[read_meter]

Arizona’s 43,000 minimum wage workers are not going to get a government-mandated pay boost in January. And you can blame low oil prices for that. New figures Wednesday from the...

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Tags: Industrial Commission, minimum wage increase, low oil prices, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Arizona

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