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Janice Schakowsky: “I am all for raising the minimum wage in the way that we did it. It gets to $15 an hour by 2025, is what we have done.”

On the recordOctober 15, 2019
I am all for raising the minimum wage in the way that we did it. It gets to $15 an hour by 2025, is what we have done.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Schakowsky supports the gradual increase of the minimum wage to $15 by 2025.

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