The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group that has been fighting on behalf of legislation to increase the minimum wage to $5.75 an hour, filed a lawsuit in California in an effort to exempt itself from paying its employees the state's current $4.25-an-hour minimum wage. As the group argued in its legal brief, "the more that ACORN must pay each individual outreach worker ... the fewer outreach workers it will be able to hire."

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