]> http://www.publicampaign.org/minimum_wage Comments for "Doing the Minimum on Minimum Wage" en http://www.publicampaign.org/minimum_wage Eight of ten Americans support it<a name="_ftnref1" href="#_ftn1" title="_ftnref1">[1]</a> and hundreds of leading economists<a name="_ftnref2" href="#_ftn2" title="_ftnref2">[2]</a> agree it would support efforts to lift 1.9 million American workers and their families<a name="_ftnref3" href="#_ftn3" title="_ftnref3">[3]</a> out of poverty. An increase in the federal minimum wage is long overdue, so why does it take so long for Congress to approve one? <p>&nbsp;</p> Tue, 01 May 2007 15:32:43 +0000