Minimum Wage Boost Would Help Women Most

[deminks]

Therefore, the GOPers are agin' it.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/minimum-wage-obama-state-union-women-poverty

In his state of the union address Tuesday, President Obama called for an increase in the federal minimum wage, and on Wednesday, he took his pitch on the road to a factory in North Carolina. There's no guarantee that GOP opposition will be overcome, but if Congress does grant his wish, this income bump would most dramatically impact women and their families, according to a new study.

Last year, 64 percent of workers who earned the minimum wage or less were women, according to the report, put out Wednesday by the liberal think-tank Center for American Progress. CAP found that if wages were upped from $7.25 to $9 an hour, as Obama proposed, nearly 9 million women who are paid hourly wages would see their earnings directly increased. Another 4.2 million women would get a wage hike because of a "spillover effect," in which companies boost wages for higher earners as well in order to maintain the same pay hierarchy in the firm.

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The GOPers want the "little lady at home". You saw it on Morning Jerk this morning, too, inviting a feminist and her daughter to talk and then blasting her for working when she had children. The GOP war on women is just getting started.

[LongTomH]

1. Running against women is really a brilliant move, now that women voters are the biggest voting block

in national elections.