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Message: From GoLocalProv by Aaron Regunberg, GoLocalProv MINDSETTER™: Barack Obama had a number of memorable points in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. But nothing rang so true as the goal he set to raise the minimum wage. The president said: “We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong…Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families. It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. In fact, working folks shouldn’t have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher. So here’s an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year: let’s tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on.” http://www.golocalprov.comhttp://beta.golocalprov.com/aaron-regunberg-want-economic-development-raise-the-minimum-wage