Other underlying conditions that predispose people to low back pain include: 1  Inflammatory diseases of the joints such as arthritis, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis as well as spondylitis, an inflammation of the vertebrae, can also cause low back pain.
Texas has the highest number of minimum wage workers in the country. And a recent poll indicated 55 percent of Texas voters support increasing the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Texas voters get what Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz donât: All Texans deserve to make a living wage.On April 30, US Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.Even though a majority of senators support the billâ54 in totalâRepublicans used a procedural move called a filibuster to block the bill from coming up for a vote.n April 30, US Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Even though a majority of senators support the billâ54 in totalâRepublicans used a procedural move called a filibuster to block the bill from coming up for a vote.
By Molly Moorhead on Thursday, February 14th, 2013 at 4:15 p.m. Mitt Romney spoke about raising the minimum wage at a campaign stop in January 2012. In his State of the Union address this week, President Barack Obama proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage, from the current $7.25 an hour to $9.one of this is to say that Romney would support Obamaâs current proposal to boost the minimum wage to $9 an hour. But Obama was on firm ground claiming that at least for most of Romneyâs political career, the former rivals were in agreement on indexing the wage.