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Barack Obama: “If you have to work more, you should get paid more.”

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Remarks on Signing a Memorandum on Updating and Modernizing Overtime Regulations

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And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

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I’m going to insist that we can do better than we’re doing right now.

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People need to “rediscover what’s the story we tell about how we’re going to live together, and see each other, and recognise each other, and disagree, and yet, still care for each other”.

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