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President Obama Fights For the American Workers Republicans Hate
Obama defends workers’ right to earn the federal minimum wage and overtime protections; something Republicans believe is an abomination
Tagged overtime pay
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Obama Dropkicks Republicans With Executive Action To Raise Overtime Wages For 5 Million Workers
The media proclaimed “lame duck” president has roared back again, as President Obama signed an executive order this morning order that put the Labor Department into action to extend overtime pay and raise wages for 5 million workers.
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A Stroke Of Obama’s Pen Will Lift 10.4 Million Workers Into the Middle Class
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be a more significant income increase for over 10 million low and low middle-class American workers that raising the hourly wage to $15 per hour for the rest of the poverty-wage workforce.
