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Released: November 26, 2011
How to make the case for higher pay
Source: Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times
So you’ve been keeping your head down, working as hard as you can — glad, you tell yourself, that you even have a job.
But you’ve been doing that for several years now. And in that time, the cost of your health insurance has gone up, along with college tuition, gasoline and a host of other things. Your pay, meanwhile, has been stagnant.
Asking for a raise is hard enough in normal economic times. But now, you can’t help wondering: does the mere act of asking for more money come with its own risks?
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