Since the bottom fifth in terms of income in our country get 43 percent of the benefits from this, is it not true that if we were to raise the minimum wage as is suggested in this legislation, along the lines of what the Senator has just talked about, it probably would do more to provide real welfare reform than 90 percent of the talk of welfare reform that is going on around right now?
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