Sen. Sherrod Brown speaks for raising the minimum wage

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Sherrod Brown says raising the federal minimum wage will be a ''tough sell'' on Capitol Hill with special interest groups against it, but the U.S. senator is going to ''make the fight'' to see an increase from the $7.25 an hour it's at now.

The Democrat on Monday brought his message in the push to raise the minimum wage above $10 an hour to Boardman at the Yankee Kitchen, where he urged for the passage of a bill that will incrementally raise the rate over the next two years.

The Fair Minimum Wage Act, of which Brown is a co-sponsor, would increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2015 in three 95-cent steps and also provide for automatic yearly increases tied to changes in the cost of living.

Found this on Sherrod Brown's facebook page, facebook.com/sherrod.

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1. That still seems pretty stingy. Raising the minimum wage substantially would be the best "stimulus"

for the economy too. It should have been done at the start of this depression.