claim: "the federal minimum wage is worth about 20 percent less than it was when ronald reagan" gave his first address to a joint session of congress.
author: barack obama
evidence_1: jan 28, 2014 ... president obama addresses the nation before a joint session of congress.
evidence_2: jan 28, 2014 ... with his largely ignored 2013 agenda in the rearview, president barack obama  pledged in his fifth state of the union address tuesday to work with, and if need  be around, ... "today, the federal minimum wage is worth about 20 percent less  than it was when ronald reagan first stood here," obama said.
evidence_3: jan 28, 2014 ... 50 - address before a joint session of the congress on the state of the union  january ... a rural doctor gave a young child the first prescription to treat asthma  that his mother could afford. ..... today, the federal minimum wage is worth about  20 percent less than it was when ronald reagan first stood here.
evidence_4: jan 29, 2014 ... the most startling thing about president obama's state of the union message is  what he failed to say about the minimum wage. “today the federal minimum  wage is worth about 20 percent less than it was when ronald reagan first stood  here,” he declared tuesday night. but wait, wasn't the minimum ...
evidence_5: oct 28, 2011 ... as then-gov. clinton said when he announced his run for president, the middle  class was spending more time on the job, less time with their children, and  bringing home less money to pay ... in 1996 congress passed a 20 percent  increase in the minimum wage, raising it from $4.25 to $5.15 in two steps.