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On Capitol Hill, the Senate rejected a pair of proposals Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time since 1997. Senator Ted Kennedy had proposed raising the wage from $5.15 to 6.25. Kennedy said a single parent with two children working a minimum wage job would earn less than $11,000 a year — $4,500 below the poverty line.
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