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- Congress votes to increase minimum wage
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  President Bush was expected to sign the bill quickly, and workers who now make $5.15 an hour will see their paychecks go up by 70 cents per hour before the end of the summer. Another 70 cents will be added next year, and by summer 2009, all minimum-wage jobs will pay no less than $7.25 an hour.
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- Media allowed to stand suggestion that Pelosi support for minimum wage bill stems from company in her district
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  In the days following House passage of a Democratic minimum wage increase, media outlets have continued to report Republican accusations that the bill, the Fair Minimum Wage Act, caters to a company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) district because it does not include a wage hike for Amer...
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- House votes to increase minimum wage
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Pelosi pushing through the 100 hours agenda step by step. This is great to see. Amazing what can happen when a party that's not knee deep in corruption takes the helm ...
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- Beck allowed misinformation on minimum wage hike
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  On the January 9 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck called a Democratic proposal to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to $7.25 per hour "nothing but a political issue" and allowed James A. Dorn, vice president for Academic Affairs at the Cato Institute, to repeat ...
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- Wash. Post headline falsely claimed Bush "[s]upports Democrats' " minimum wage proposal
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  A December 21 Washington Post article bore the headline: "Bush Supports Democrats' Minimum Wage Hike Plan," although the article itself, by staff writers Michael A. Fletcher and Jonathan Weisman, made clear that the minimum wage proposal Bush endorsed at his December 20 press conference -- pair...
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- Will falsely suggested most employees affected by Dems proposed minimum-wage increase are "students and other part-time workers"
  Posted by newscloud from Media Matters
  On the November 19 edition of ABC's This Week, Washington Post columnist George F. Will falsely suggested that most employees who would benefit from a Democratic proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $7.25 per hour are "students and other part-time workers." In fact, while the majority ...
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- Idealog: Voters in six states decide to raise minimum wage
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  Think the middle class is feeling the pinch, minimum wage initiatives passed across the country by wide margins: Ohio: 56% Missouri: 74% Montana: 73% Nevada: 65% Arizona: 66% Colorado: 52%
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Minimum wage

Congress votes to increase minimum wage

Media allowed to stand suggestion that Pelosi support for minimum wage bill stems from company in her district

House votes to increase minimum wage

Beck allowed misinformation on minimum wage hike

Wash. Post headline falsely claimed Bush "[s]upports Democrats' " minimum wage proposal

Will falsely suggested most employees affected by Dems proposed minimum-wage increase are "students and other part-time workers"

Idealog: Voters in six states decide to raise minimum wage

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