Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he won’t consider raising the national minimum wage to a level lower than $10.10 an hour, even as a way to coax support from reluctant Democrats seeking re-election this year.
Asked if there would be a compromise to increase the wage and still keep it below the $10.10-an-hour level President Barack Obama endorsed in his Jan. 28 State of the Union address, Reid responded yesterday, “Not with me.”
Reid made his comments as at least three Senate Democrats - - Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Warner of Virginia -- expressed concerns about raising the federal wage floor to $10.10 an hour. All three are up for re- election in November, with Landrieu and Pryor running in states that Obama lost by double-digits in 2012.
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