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"Vice President Biden backs LA mayor's plan to raise minimum wage to $13.25"
Vice President Biden backs LA mayor's plan to raise minimum wage to $13.25By ABC7.com staff, Eyewitness News
http://abc7.com/politics/biden-backs-garcettis-plan-to-raise-minimum-wage-to-$1325/338860/
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) --
Vice President Joe Biden backed a proposed minimum wage hike for Los Angeles during his trip to the Southland Tuesday.
Business leaders also participated in the roundtable discussion held at the L.A. Baking Company in Lincoln Heights around 10:15 a.m.
The current minimum wage in Los Angeles is $9 per hour. Garcetti would like to see it go up to $13.25 per hour, which would make it the highest rate in the country. Biden supports the idea of a higher minimum wage.
"This $1.8 billion will immediately go back into the economy of the city of Los Angeles. It in and of itself will create new jobs. It will create new enterprise," said Biden. "So the idea that somehow raising the minimum wage is in any way counter productive, it just belies the facts."
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