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dallasnews.com - 7/24/2009

Minimum wage raise a drop in the bucket for some Dallas-area workers | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Breaking News for Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas Morning News

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06:45 AM CDT on Friday, July 24, 2009 By AVI SELK / The Dallas Morning News aselk@dallasnews.com Poor workers may have especially good cause to say TGIF today. That's because amid the worst recession in decades, about 500,000 of Texas' lowest-paid employees will get a raise. The federal ...

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dallasnews.com - 7/24/2009

Guaranty Bank may face federal control | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas ...

— dallasnews.com — 07:16 AM CDT on Friday, July 24, 2009 By BRENDAN CASE / The Dallas Morning News bcase@dallasnews.com... Austin-based Guaranty Financial Group Inc. probably can't continue as a going concern, the company said Thursday. Its subsidiary, Guaranty Bank, is ... (more) Guaranty Bank may face federal control | News for ...

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youtube.com - 7/24/2009

Dallas Tea Party beats MoveOn.org 10 to 1 (video)

— youtube.com — Dallas Tea Party and MoveOn.org demonstrated in front of Senators Cornin office in Dallas July 23, 2009... against and for ObamaCare. Demonstrators intermingl... (more) Dallas Tea Party beats MoveOn.org 10 to 1 (video)

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ThinkFast: July 24, 2009
Think Progress — ... The federal minimum wage rises today from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour, which affects nearly 4 million workers across the nation and is the final wage increase mandated by Congress in 2007. The increase means that a full-time minimum wage earner will receive $28 more a week. “[A]ny kind of increase in your paycheck is a big help,” said one minimum wage earner, “[it] ...

Hullabaloo — ... As the final phase from a bill passed back in 2007, today the federal minimum wage rises to $7.25 an hour from $6.55 for workers across the country. This brings the federal minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, back to where it was in the 1990s. It's hard to determine how many minimum-wage employees there are out there, but the best guess is that five million people get a raise today. Here's one of them. ...