February 29, 2012

MANSFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TESTIFY AT CAPITOL
Students wrote essays on increasing minimum wage

State Representative Gregory Haddad (D-Mansfield, Chaplin), who sponsored an essay challenge for 8th graders in the 54th House District, hosted Mansfield Middle School students Ethan Oliver and Kevin Sheehan at the State Capitol Tuesday February 28 as they testified before the Labor Committee at a public hearing on legislation sponsored by Haddad to increase the minimum wage. Video of the full testimony can be viewed here.

Mansfield 8th graders Kevin Sheehan (left) and Ethan Oliver testify before the legislature’s Labor Committee at the State Capitol in support of a bill increasing the minimum wage. The students participated in an essay challenge sponsored by State Representative Gregory Haddad (background) and chose the minimum wage as their subject.

State Representative Gregory Haddad (left), who sponsored an essay challenge for 8th graders hosts Mansfield Middle School student Ethan Oliver at the State Capitol as they testified before the Labor Committee at a public hearing on legislation sponsored by Haddad to increase the minimum wage. Fellow classmate Kevin Sheehan also wrote on raising the minimum wage and testified after Oliver.