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President Obama Announces Executive Order to Raise Wages of Federal Contract Workers
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama announced a “Good Jobs” Executive Order requiring government contractors to raise the minimum wage for their lowest-paid workers to $10.10 for all new and renegotiated contracts.
This Executive Order follows Demos' Underwriting Bad Jobs which quantified the size of the low-wage workforce supported by federal taxpayer dollars, finding that nearly two million Americans paid through federal contracts, grants, loans, concession agreements and property leases were paid less than $12 an hour.
Related:
- Demos Hails President Obama's Decision To Use Executive Authority to Raise The Pay of Federal Contract Workers
- Underwriting Bad Jobs: How Our Tax Dollars Are Funding Low-Wage Work and Fueling Inequality
- Amy Traub, President Obama Takes Action to Raise the Pay of Low-Wage Federal Contract Workers
- Spencer Overton, The State of the Union and African Americans
