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Elizabeth Warren: A fair minimum wage ensures that someone who chooses to work... is not consigned to live in desperate poverty.

On the recordMarch 11, 2014
A fair minimum wage ensures that someone who chooses to work... is not consigned to live in desperate poverty.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren asserts that a fair minimum wage protects workers from poverty.

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