Obama actions test workplace ideas

By Washington Examiner
Published April 6, 2014 4:00am ET
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Obama actions test workplace ideas
In this April 2, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama is silhouetted as he speaks at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Mich., about his proposal to raise the national minimum wage. The roller coaster of health care enrollment behind him, Obama is using a lull between foreign travel to refocus on his economic agenda, using executive actions to push for greater gender pay equality and to promote better technical skills for U.S. students.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Carolyn Kaster

Lacking congressional support to raise wages or end gender pay disparities, President Obama is again imposing his policies on federal contractors, in keeping with presidents’ tradition of exerting their powers on a fraction of the economy they directly control.

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