Obama pushes 'raise' for America during U-M speech on minimum wage
Source: Detroit Free Press
President Barack Obama urged support of his plan to raise the national minimum wage to help Americans out of poverty in a speech at the University of Michigan this afternoon.
The address, which also included a handful of quips about the Wolverines basketball, highlighted the importance of increasing the hourly rate to $10.10 to extend the American dream to more Americans.
“You can give America the shaft or you can give America a raise,” Obama said.
An estimated 1,400 filled half of the gymnasium in the U-M Intramural Sports Building. Behind the president was a giant American flag, “Michigan” painted in maize and blue on the brick wall and several dozen U-M students, many of them in school sweatshirts and T-shirts.
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