A news article about President Obama's proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour from $7.25 an hour reports, "In his 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama proposed lifting the minimum wage yet higher, to $9.50."
That's fine context, but it also raises the question of what Mr. Obama said about the minimum wage in the 2012 presidential campaign. I sure watched a lot of Mr. Obama in the presidential debates and at the Democratic National Convention, and I've got to tell you I sure don't recall him emphasizing or even mentioning a $9 an hour minimum wage. Maybe I missed it, but in any event, it would have been some useful context for the Times to have included here, perhaps even more relevant than the background about the 2008 campaign.