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On the recordJune 5, 2013
What I did is I pointed out that if the minimum wage had been linked to productivity starting back in the late 1960s, if we had just linked it to productivity, how much more each earner is working, our earners collectively are working, it would now be $22 an hour.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses the link between minimum wage and productivity since the 1960s.

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