Strong support continues for minimum wage
By NBC's Taylor Hiegel
A solid majority of Americans support President Obama’s proposal in his most recent State of the Union to increase the minimum wage.
Some 71 percent of those surveyed said they supported raising the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour from $7.25, while 27 percent opposed it, according to a Gallup Poll released Wednesday.
The results attest to the popularity of Obama’s plan, wrote Gallup’s Lydia Saad in the poll’s release.
“Raising the federal minimum wage is typically a crowd pleaser when it comes to policy prescriptions, and Obama’s proposal…is not an exception,” she wrote. “The 71 percent vs. 27 percent balance of U.S. public opinion in favor of passing it is convincing…”
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