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By Joel Connelly
Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 21, 2014

President Obama can’t get House Republicans to move on hiking the minimum wage, but he is honoring as “Champions of Change” a bevy of American activists who have fought for economic justice at the state and local level. ...

The White House is also honoring a prince of an employer. He is Lew Prince, co-owner of Vintage Vinyl in St. Louis, who is [a] leader of a group called Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.  He has traveled from Springfield to Washington, D.C., arguing for a higher state and federal minimum wage.

The Obama administration has called for increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. ...

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