Alan Grayson: “This is the lesson that we are teaching those young men and women who…”

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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Jun 9, 2016

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