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So comp time is not like cash wages. If you pay somebody cash overtime they control how it is spent--the worker controls how it is spent.

The current system is broken. We welcome the opportunity to work with you and the other members of this committee to fix it.

if we are able to raise wages across the board, particularly for low-wage and middle-skill workers, we are simply going to have more people spending more money.

What Congress can do is to not just acknowledge that is true but to respond by ensuring that workers can transition into good-quality jobs as seamlessly and at low cost as possible to them.