10/21/2009
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"Minimum wage workers have not received an increase in their wages in 7 years."
"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."
"We've heard today how the deck is stacked against women, particularly working moms, and about how it's getting worse."
"if we would raise the minimum wage, it would be good for the economy, that it would reduce Federal spending at least to the tune of $46 billion, that it would affect one in five working mothers, and f..."