Senator Harkin Introduces Legislation to Raise Minimum Wage

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 26, 2012.  Yesterday, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2012.  The bill would raise the minimum wage to $9.80 per hour.  Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the senior Democratic member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, introduced companion legislation in the United States House of Representatives today.