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Article: Federal minimum wage increase faces little resistance
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- November 17, 2006
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Adam Edelman
University Wire
11-17-2006
(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- A Democrat-controlled Congress is expected to raise the federal minimum wage when the new session begins in January.
This increase in minimum wage, considered long overdue by some, will be the first since 1997.
Six states voted to boost state minimum wages in last week's midterm election, and with President Bush and several prominent Republican congressmen pledging to work with Democrats on increasing the minimum wage, support for such an increase is overwhelming.
"It had support from some Republicans even last year, so I think that it will probably happen," said Dirk Deam, senior lecturer of political science.
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