$10 Minimum Wage Proposal Has Growing Support From White House

[Coyotl]

$10 Minimum Wage Proposal Has Growing Support From White House
By CATHERINE RAMPELL and STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: November 7, 2013 - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/business/10-minimum-wage-proposal-has-obamas-backing.html?_r=0

The White House has thrown its weight behind a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to at least $10 an hour.

“The president has long supported raising the minimum wage so hard-working Americans can have a decent wage for a day’s work to support their families and make ends meet,” a White House official said.

President Obama, the official continued, supports the Harkin-Miller bill, also known as the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from its current $7.25.

The legislation is sponsored in the Senate by Tom Harkin of Iowa and in the House by George Miller of California, both Democrats. It would raise the minimum wage — in three steps of 95 cents each, taking place over two years — to $10.10, and then index it to inflation. ............

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. While negotiating the TPP?

[gopiscrap]

2. 10? fuck that, it should be 18!

[Bob Jones]

3. Anything less than $25 an hour is slave labor, and should be a crime.

[leftstreet]

4. Insulting. It's already close to that in some states

Fast food workers have been demanding $15