This Labor Day, we should commend Gov. Schwarzenegger for supporting an increase of the state minimum wage from $6.75 to $8 an hour by 2008. Wealth and income inequalities have reached levels not experienced in California since the 1930s. Raising the minimum wage can ease problems such inequities create.

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