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Joe Courtney: “We have not raised the minimum wage since 2007.”

On the recordJune 9, 2014
We have not raised the minimum wage since 2007.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney highlights the lack of minimum wage increase since 2007.

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