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Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt In Support Of Increasing The Minimum Wage

January 10, 2007 By rep-ed-markey-d-ma

By increasing the federal minimum wage by $2.10 - from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over two years - we are giving a long overdue pay raise to about 13 million Americans, which amounts to an additional $4,400 per year for a family of three.  … [Read more...]

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Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt In Support Of Increasing The Minimum Wage

January 10, 2007 By rep-ed-markey-d-ma

President Franklin Roosevelt told us, "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." The federal minimum wage has remained … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 5.50, big, business, co-pay, deductables, ed, health, insurance, markey, minimum, national, poor, poverty, premiums, small, wage

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