Labor official brings minimum-wage push to Baltimore : Baltimore Sun

The fight over the federal minimum wage is coming to Baltimore.

The head of the U.S. Department of Labor plans to swing into town Tuesday to talk to low-wage workers about how they make — or don’t make — ends meet. Seth D. Harris, the agency’s acting secretary, has crisscrossed the country for such events since President Barack Obama proposed in February that the minimum be raised from $7.25 an hour to $9.

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