White House Staff Got a Raise. Minimum Wage Workers Didn’t

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/07/12/white-house-staff-got-a-raise-minimum-wage-workers-didn%e2%80%99t/

White House Staff Got a Raise. Minimum Wage Workers Didn’t

It’s no secret it’s getting harder and harder to stretch that paycheck. Gas prices climbing relentlessly. Inflation pushing the prices of just about everything higher and higher. Interest rates ticking upward.

You know what America needs? America Needs a Raise.

Guess who got one? Karl Rove and every top-paid White House staffer.

Guess who didn’t? Every single minimum wage worker in America.

The same day that House Republican blocked yet another vote on raising the minimum wage, The National Journal published a list of 433 White House salaries. (Click here for the Journal’s list of White House salaries.)

Gas prices won’t worry the 19 highest paid staffers—Rove included. (Rove’s official title, by the way, is assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff & senior advisor.)
Their 2006 pay jumped by 1,400 gallons of gas, or $4,200 more than 2005. The National Journal says the cost of living increase bumped their salaries from $161,000 a year to $165,200.

One of the biggest raises went to First Lady Laura Bush’s chief of staff, Anita McBride, who received a $16,000 a year raise to $149,000 a year.