Rendell Signs Minimum Wage Bill
Governor Rendell signed legislation yesterday enacting the first wage increase for Pennsylvania's working poor in nine years. The hard fought sucess was celebrated at Philadelphia's Sharon Baptist Church. Over 36 organizations, headed by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, combined to form the Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition to lobby lawmakers and convince them the time had come to raise hard working Pennsylvanians out of poverty.
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