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In our country today 10.1 million people work for between $5.15 and $6.14, and while it is not discussed as much as other social issues, raising the minimum wage has been an issue for our country for sometime. This is a huge social issue because back in Clinton's last term he was going to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.50. For a full-time worker, the minimum wage increase would make enough money to pay for almost 7 months of groceries or 5 months of rent. President Bush on the other hand believes that raising the minimum wage would not to be successful and they have blocked attempts to pass legislation to raise the minimum wage in the last Congress. This is a very public issue because 69 percent of these workers are adults (age 20 or over), about 60 percent are women, about 45 percent worked full-time, and about 33 percent are parents with children under age 18. In 1997, the earnings of the average minimum wage worker accounted for 54 percent of their family's total......

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