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Barack Obama: Raising the minimum wage would benefit nearly 28 million American workers.

On the recordDecember 5, 2014
Raising the minimum wage would benefit nearly 28 million American workers.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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