Meanwhile, Representative Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, who is backing a bill that would ease the export of computer source code, said in a statement yesterday that the U . S . government " should not restrict the very liberties it is supposed to be defending " in the name of national defense.
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Thursday, Munoz and other low-wage workers joined labor, legal and workplace groups in backing a bill that would raise the minimum wage in Massachusetts to $ 5.25 an hour for one year and, thereafter, increase it to 50 percent of the state's average hourly wage for nonsupervisory private workers or $ 6.25 over a two-year period.
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Thursday, Munoz and other low-wage workers joined labor, legal and workplace groups in backing a bill that would raise the minimum wage in Massachusetts to $ 5 . 25 an hour for one year and, thereafter, increase it to 50 percent of the state's average hourly wage for nonsupervisory private workers or $ 6 . 25 over a two-year period.
