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Following through on his State of the Union pledge, President Barack Obama has signed an Executive Order raising the minimum wage for workers on new federal contracts to $10.10 per hour. The rate increase will apply only to solicitations and contracts issued on or after January 1, 2015.
Cruz said his father, a Cuban immigrant who didn't speak English, got his first job as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour. If President Obama had had his way, the minimum wage would have been raised from 50 cents to $2 and they wouldnât be able to hire my dad,â Cruz said.âIt would have cost him the first job that let him pay his way through college that led him to eventually building a small business.Unemployment among young people will go up if the minimum wage goes up as President Obama says. Unemployment among Hispanics, among African Americans, among those struggling to get their first job to climb the economic ladder, will go up.â.