Women and Families Would Be the Lead Recipients of a Minimum-Wage Boost

by Gary Kopycinski on February 14, 2013

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2013. In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama pushed for an increase in the federal minimum wage, and today the Center for American Progress released four charts and an analysis of how this policy change would markedly improve the lives of women and families across the country.