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Cleo Fields: the American workers, have not received a minimum wage increase since 1991, and I am sure that the gentleman would agree…

On the recordMay 1, 1996
the American workers, have not received a minimum wage increase since 1991, and I am sure that the gentleman would agree with me that the cost of living between 1991 and 1996 did not go down but it went up. As a matter of fact, inflation is on the average 3 percent a year. So if that is the case, then the gentleman would have to agree with me, or it appears to me that the gentleman would have to agree with me that is just makes basic sense that those low-paid workers, those minimum wage workers deserve the opportunity to have their increase, not commensurate with inflation but in 5 years they are overdue for an increase.
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Cleo Fields
Democratic · Louisiana

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Discussing the need for a minimum wage increase during a debate.

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