1.   Because private contractors pay taxes, contracting services can raise county revenue.

2.   But the state requires contractors to pay the most common wage rate on state and local government projects.

3.   By raising the wage that contractors must pay, he found, these laws make it less tempting for cities to seek to save money by privatizing services.

4.   Gore also supports labor on preserving federal legislation that requires contractors to pay prevailing wage rates to workers on government-funded projects.

5.   In keeping with those views, Albanese sponsored a so-called living wage bill that required some city contractors to pay higher minimum wages.

6.   It would require contractors to pay workers the prevailing wage, usually set by labor unions.

7.   Like ImproveNet, Handyman Online is free to customers because contractors pay the company when they land jobs.

8.   Some contractors pay less than the standard wage or fail to provide adequate health benefits.

9.   The bill died because of a dispute over a provision that required cleanup contractors to pay union-scale wages.

10.   The fight involves a California program that allows government contractors to pay less than the prevailing wage if they are enrolled in state-approved apprenticeship programs.