Questions and answer about Obama’s wage plan

Published January 29, 2014 7:32am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatively few Americans — less than 5 percent of hourly workers — toil for the minimum wage today.

Yet President Barack Obama’s push to offset years of inflation by raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would ripple through the economy and touch the lives of millions more workers and their families.

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