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Charlie Sheen says he wants a raise to come back to the CBS show "Two and a Half Men." The troubled star appeared on dueling morning show interviews Monday to continue an attack on CBS and producers of his hit sitcom for shutting down the show because of his off-set behavior. Both ABC's "Good Morning America" and NBC's "Today" show aired lengthy segments of their interviews in their first and second half hours.

Why ask for a raise this year? Because you're making a third less than your male counterparts.

The scheduled 4 percent pay rise was set to go into effect on Thursday and is on top of a 9 percent raise in the last three years, Governor David Paterson said. He reminded unions that in the past two years, more than 300,000 New Yorkers have lost jobs and nearly 9 percent of workers are unemployed.