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Senate Says No To Minimum Wage Increase
Posted on March 08, 2005
Have you seen Struggling to Survive? The winner of the Youth Documentary Award explains why the $5.15 federal minimum wage is impossible to survive on. How can anyone who works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year live in poverty in the richest country in the world?
On Monday, the Senate voted against raisint the federal wage floor $2.10 over the next 26 months. The national minimum wage has remained unchanged since 1996.
David Espo reports on the ruling today.
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