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Letter: Workers deserve $1 an hour raise

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 | 8:54 a.m.

It is appalling that business owners (and anyone else) would deny a minimum-wage worker a dollar-an-hour raise. This would amount to a paltry $40 a week for a full-time worker, which could mean the difference between having food in the house or going hungry.

While corporations claim that their executives deserve their multi-million-dollar bonuses, let's not forget who does the hard, often backbreaking, work that allows those companies to turn handsome profits.

PATRICIA DUCHARME

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