Obama pushes plans to create a thriving middle class

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President Barack Obama used his weekly address to reiterate his ideas to grow and strengthen the middle class that he made during the State of the Union. Among those ideas include increasing the minimum wage to $9 an hour, having states provide early preschool education to any child who wants it and rebuilding the country's manufacturing sector.

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President Barack Obama used his weekly address to again tout his proposals to grow the middle class. He talked about increasing the minimum wage, improving the education system in this country and building a manufacturing sector that would create thousands of jobs.
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