After eating lunch at Zimmerman’s in Ann Arbor, President Obama gave a speech at the University of Michigan urging people to get behind his proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 a hour, from the current $7.25.
Wednesday’s speech marked Obama’s third visit to U-M.
The federal minimum wage debuted in 1938. The 25-cent hourly rate applied only to certain job categories.
For the full article, see Zlati Meyer and David Jesse, “Obama pushes ‘raise’ for America during U-M speech on minimum wage”, Lansing State Journal, April 3, 2014.