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Stateside for Tuesday, April 2, 2014

Today President Obama visited the University of Michigan to push the Fair Minimum Wage Act. When our show aired, the president was talking to students and invited guests about the bill that would gradually raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 by 2016.

Senate Democrats are planning votes on a bill, but Republicans are working to block it.

Michigan's minimum wage is $7.40 an hour, though groups are working to gather petition signatures to boost.

Later in the hour we got a live report from the president's campus visit, find out what he said, and whether Michigan might see more presidential visits  in the near future.

But first, we heard from Paul Saginaw. He's the co-founder of Zingerman's Delicatessen in Ann Arbor.

He has been pushing to increase the minimum wage and he is already committed to paying Zingerman's workers above the minimum wage.

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