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Joe Courtney: “If we would actually pass the minimum wage bill, there is an estimate in terms of the billions of savings for the…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
If we would actually pass the minimum wage bill, there is an estimate in terms of the billions of savings for the taxpayer.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney argues that raising the minimum wage could save taxpayers billions.

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