August 12: Cleaver to march for minimum wage

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Wednesday, 10 years to the day had passed since Congress last raised the minimum wage.

In recognition of that anniversary, Kansas City Congressman Emanuel Cleaver has organized a Ministers' March for the Minimum Wage at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 12 at Mill Creek Park on the Country Club Plaza.

Cleaver backs a minimum wage boost from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. He voted against a Republican-backed bill in the House this week that tied a minimum wage bump to an estate tax cut.

Why?

"...It saddles the government with another $900 billion in debt over the next decade to pay for yet another tax cut for the rich," Cleaver said.

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