On the eve of his State of the Union address, which focused on the "2014 year of action", Barack Obama announced that, bypassing Congress, will issue a decree to raise the minimum hourly wage from next year for new federal workers' contracts at $10,10. A measure strongly opposed by the Republicans.
In his speech tonight, the White House anticipates, Obama will also ask Congress to approve a law that aims at the same result also for current contracts and that indexes hourly wages to inflation. The minimum wage is currently $7,25. And that's not all: the White House anticipates that the US president will ask Congress to approve a law that obtains the same result for current contracts and that introduces a sort of "escalator", indexing the hourly wage to inflation .
