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Robert Berry: “as millions of Americans struggle to get by making the lowest real value minimum wage in 50 years, Republicans in this…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2006
as millions of Americans struggle to get by making the lowest real value minimum wage in 50 years, Republicans in this body are preparing to adjourn the House for a 5-week summer vacation without providing them with any financial relief. Despite numerous attempts by the Democratic Members, Republicans still refuse to increase the minimum wage to a living wage. It is time for a new direction. Six million people who would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage deserve better than a Congress that rewards the wealthiest while punishing those who need assistance the most and are willing to work for it. Eighty-six percent of Americans support increasing the minimum wage, because they know, just as Democrats in this body know, that it is simply wrong for a full-time worker with a full-time job to live in poverty in this great Nation. ____________________
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Robert Berry
Arkansas
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