governorabercrombie, roy, governor o'malley, governor , alsok, governor quinn mentioned in their state of the state addresses, and in my state of the union address, obviously, i promised that i could do what i could, as the head of the executive branch of the federal government, and i have already executive order saying that if you want to do business with the federal government as a federal contractor, then you need to be paying your employees $10.10 an hour. we do not want somebody who is washing dishes for our troops, helping in some ways to care for them to be living in poverty when they are working full-time. and what we have discovered in working with this issue is that increasingly businesses recognize that raising wages for their employees is a smart business issue because they end up having lower turnover rates, higher productivity, higher andle, folks stay longer, are more focused on their job rather than having to worry about whether or not they can pay their bills at the end of the month. this is not just good policy -- it also happens to be good politics because the truth