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On the recordJune 9, 2016
This is the lesson that we are teaching those young men and women who we are supposedly trying to help. The lesson is this: hop on an airplane from San Juan to my district in Orlando for $168, and you can get a 70 percent increase in your wages because that is what the difference is already under current law between what you are talking about, a $4.25 hourly wage and $7.25 that you can earn legally--it is actually more than that under State law--in Orlando. That is not teaching people how to work. It is teaching people to disrespect work.
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Alan Grayson
Florida
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Jun 9, 2016

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