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Elizabeth Warren: “Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would save $46 billion in food stamps and would lift a lot of women…”

On the recordMay 19, 2014
Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would save $46 billion in food stamps and would lift a lot of women, obviously, out of poverty.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren highlights the economic benefits of raising the minimum wage for low-income women.

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