08.26.2009 6:31 pm
Kennedy on minimum wage and the GOP
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The federal minimum wage went up 70 cents an hour on Friday, to $7.25 an hour, the third and last of the scheduled increases enacted by Congress in 2007. Let the standard arguments begin:
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