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Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.