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CEO pay doubled, the minimum wage stayed the same. But Americans still can't agree on a raise. Ledyard King, Charisse Jones, Paul Davidson and Michael Collins, USA TODAY © Getty Images Minimum wage signs KEYSER, W.Va. – Jackie Hickey Butts remembers the hardscrabble lifestyle she led on $8.75 an hour as a single mother in this bucolic town in West Virginia's eastern panhandle: No car. No television. No extras for her and her five children. “There’s one month you didn’t pay the water bill. Then you doubled up the next month and then you did the same thing with ele...

The final stage in a £1.4bn major regeneration project in Clapham, south London, has been granted planning permission. The York Gardens project, a joint venture between Taylor Wimpey and Wandsworth Council, will include 2,550 new homes as well as a new leisure centre, a community centre, a library, and a children’s centre and nursery. HTA Design’s plans will also see offices, a health centre and a new 2.5-hectare public park built. The JV said the development of the Winstanley and York Road Estate will create 3,360 construction jobs. Construction on the new homes that have been granted p...

John Tilsiter   SIR – In a free society, we have the option to buy the cheapest, which is often made in China. Many of the less well-off may not have a choice. William Blake   SIR – Although I am now 74, I was given a Meccano set for Christmas. It is proving to be a most absorbing time-filler, but I was disappointed to find that it was made in China. Luckily, I still have the spanner from my Fifties childhood set and have convinced myself that this original, proudly stamped Made in England, tightens the nuts with greater authority. James L Shearer Black day for pubs