The issue was not whether to raise the minimum wage but by how much. Last week the effort faltered because neither Congress nor President Bush would give ground on a 30 cents-an-hour difference of opinion. On Tuesday Congress sent legislation to the White House calling for a $1.20-an-hour increase, to $4.55, by 1992. Less than an hour later, 35,000 ft. over Wyoming aboard Air Force One, the President vetoed the bill. Bush has insisted that $4.25 an hour is enough.
Minimum-wage workers have had no raise in eight years, and mounting prices have eroded their buying power. If the $3.35 wage...
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