Obama to announce minimum wage increase for federal contractors
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- President Obama will combine a re-tooled theme, a mixed
economic message, low poll numbers with some actual news when he
delivers his State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday
night.  The White House said that Mr. Obama will announce he
will sign an executive order requiring federal contractors pay
their employees a $10.10/hour minimum wage. Workers at the
Pentagon and other Washington federal locations have recently
gone on strike to highlight the issue. Liberal members of
Congress have urged Mr. Obama to take the step, which could, by
some estimates, raise the wages of 2 million workers. Recent
reports indicated the president was moving in this direction.
His increasingly brash use of executive orders to circumvent
Congress has raised the ire of some Hill Republicans, but senior
administration officials ackno