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On the recordJune 9, 2015
First, I should note the minimum wage itself is a misguided economic policy that hurts the very people that we most want to help, those at the bottom of the economic scale.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer criticizes the minimum wage as harmful to low-income workers.

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