unspecified number. the move comes weeks after the president signed another executive order, one that progressives have been calling for for years, and one that raises the minimum wage for government contractors beginning next year. in 2014, those contractors can still be paid the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. but starting in 2015, that number goes up to $10.10 an hour. this new executive progressivism is happening on the same day that the 70-member congressional progressive caucus, the cpc, is releasing their annual budget, which is called the better-off budget. the caucus is presenting their spending blueprint against a backdrop of stagnating wages, after all, not every worker is a government contractor, and soaring corporate profits. they say it would create 8.8 million jobs by 2017 through a combination of infrastructure spending, state aid, and public works funding. it would also, paging house republicans, reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over 10 years, by