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  • White House Staffers Got a Raise Last Year, And You Did Not

    07/06/2011 2:48:02 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 9 replies
    gawker.com ^ | July 6, 2011 | John Cook
    John Cook — The White House released its annual salary report last week, and as usual, it's nice to work for Barack Obama: Most staffers who were there for more than a year got a salary bump. A bigger one than you did. The last time we checked in on White House salaries, we found that an astonishing 75% of continuing staffers got raises from 2009 to 2010—a huge number given the fact that, according to compensation experts, most companies had skipped routine raises that year in reaction to the economic crisis that the White House was busy failing to...
  • Chavez Announces Wage Hike in Venezuela

    02/02/2006 10:39:09 PM PST · by proud_yank · 13 replies · 441+ views
    AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb 2, 2006 | AP
    CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced a 15-percent hike in the minimum wage Thursday. "Starting from yesterday, we increase the minimum wage by 15 percent," Chavez said during the televised celebration of his seven years in office. He also increase the minimum wage last year. The latest increase brings the minimum wage to about 466,000 bolivars (US$217;euro180) a month.