Last month President Obama signed legislation increasing the minimum wage of contract workers from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour. "It's time to give Americans a raise", the president said in several addresses this year, as well as in this week's Weekly Address. "No one who works forty hours a week should live in poverty." Many see $10.10 per hour as a step in the right direction towards helping hard working Americans take care of their families. Yet many employees in the fast food and retail industries held protests and went on strike in an effort to get the minimum wage even higher, to a living wage of $15 per hour. How about a happy medium, we can all live with? One Republican conservative is suggesting that the minimum wage be raised to $12 an hour. Ron Unz says raising the minimum wage to $12 an hour would keep workers off welfare and government assistance, and allow workers to provide a living wage for ...
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