"They come in last in everything else – minimum wage, education, Medicare.
And in focus groups following the speech, voters gave him high marks on his push for paycheck fairness, minimum wage, education, student loans, and job training.
Obama "talked about how Democrats can win in 2014, and the issues to push -- minimum wage, education, immigration," a Senate source told HuffPost.
Ranglin-Vassell, a Jamaica-born schoolteacher in Providence, told Rhode Island Public Radio that if elected to office, she would fight for a $15 minimum wage, education funding and gun violence prevention measures.
"Ted Kennedy's contribution to American culture and society can be seen in virtually every historic issue fought in modern American politics, including health care, social security and Medicare, minimum wages, education, immigration, aid for senior citizens, civil rights, voter's rights, women's rights, gay rights and human rights.
Her priorities include raising the minimum wage, financing education and transportation, and fixing the way state campaigns are financed.
That "greed agenda," the ad contends, includes cutting taxes for the rich, eliminating the minimum wage, cutting education financing and subsidizing oil companies.
Her friend Mary Sanders said, "I really grew up in Mitch's shadow", adding: "It's really important to me that she supports a sustainable minimum wage and education".
Its policies include cutting taxes, opposing climate change regulations, advocating reductions in labour protections and the minimum wage, privatising education, restricting voter rights and lobbying for the tobacco industry.
Repeating measures outlined in the government's annual report on its priorities, released this month, Mr. Wen said leaders were committed to raising the minimum wage, improving education and job opportunities, and expanding the nation's limited social safety net.
As Democrats asserted their new power at the start of the year, they raced ahead in the House with a series of initiatives on the minimum wage, higher education, terrorism, health care and energy, often with solid bipartisan support, giving hope that they might be able to attract Republicans.
