Obama’s Minimum Wage Rhetoric Based on Minimum Fact

By: jayp (Diary)  |  February 16th at 02:38 PM  | 

 “We know our economy’s stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. Tonight, let’s declare that, in the wealthiest nation on Earth, | Read More »