Obama on Wages: ‘I Did What I Could — it Turns out I’m a Pretty Big Employer’

BARACK OBAMA: "Republicans so far refuse to raise workers’ wages.  I did what I could -- it turns out I'm a pretty big employer.  (Laughter.)  So I said any federal worker -- anybody who works for federal contractors, they’re going to have to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour.  (Applause.)   And I asked business owners and governors and mayors and state legislators to do what they could on their own.  (Applause.) 

"And, by at way, since I first asked Congress to raise the minimum wage, 13 states have gone ahead and raised theirs -- and those states have seen higher job growth than the states that haven’t raised their minimum wage."