White House Weekly Address: Raise The Minimum Wage – It’s The Right Thing To Do For Hardworking Americans

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2014.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m Joe Biden. I’m filling in for President Obama, who is abroad.

I want to talk to you today about the minimum wage and the overwhelming need to raise the minimum wage. There’s no reason in the world why an American working 40 hours a week has to live in poverty. But right now a worker earning the federal minimum wage makes about $14,500 a year.  And you…