Obama pushes again for minimum wage increase

Published April 26, 2014 10:12am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is again encouraging Congress to pass a bill raising the minimum raise to $10.10 an hour.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says increasing the pay for minimum-wage workers would help 28 million workers. He says Republican lawmakers not only don’t want to increase the minimum wage, some want to get rid of it entirely.

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