The Fifth District Report
Ellison Pushes for Higher Minimum Wage
He’s pushing a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
Fifth District Rep. Keith Ellison and the U.S. Department of Labor hosted a roundtable March 25 in order to push for an increase to the minimum wage. Ellison has introduced a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Twin Cities Daily Planet reported that Ellison and Mary Beth Maxwell, acting deputy administrator for the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, appeared moved by stories they heard from workers struggling to make ends meet. “In my opinion, we need to link the minimum wage to the (company’s) executive wage,” the Twin Cities Daily Planet quoted Ellison. “If a company is doing well, everybody with the company should be doing well.” Medicare Advantage The Wall Street journal took Ellison and other …
Mike B.
8:05 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Rep Ellison is like many Democrats. A few of them may actually have good intensions. But Democrat politicians are overwhelmingly from "community organizer" and education backgrounds. They have no idea of what makes our free enterprise system works. That's what makes Eric Paulsen such an effective congressman. He has a strong background in the private sector. Thank goodness he's my congressman, … more ›