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Elizabeth Warren: “When it is fully implemented, the minimum wage will no longer be a poverty wage.”

On the recordMarch 11, 2014
When it is fully implemented, the minimum wage will no longer be a poverty wage.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren emphasizes the positive impact of the minimum wage increase on poverty.

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