Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American attorney, academic, and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a prominent advocate for consumer protection, economic equality, and corporate regulation. Warren gained national recognition for her work in establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and has focused on issues such as student debt relief and healthcare reform during her tenure in the Senate.
May 21, 2014
Mr. Chairman, thank you, and thank you for calling this hearing. I have questions for the next two witnesses, so I will just hold until then.
May 21, 2014
I appreciate the Senator's comments about a complaint system that is in place.
May 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.
May 19, 2014
As you know, women hold a disproportionate number of low-wage jobs, making up about 76 percent of the workers in the 10 biggest low-wage job categories in America.
May 19, 2014
We could change this if Congress would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
May 19, 2014
Minimum wage workers have not received an increase in their wages in 7 years.
May 19, 2014
We've heard today how the deck is stacked against women, particularly working moms, and about how it's getting worse.
May 19, 2014
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 from the data we already know, it would…
May 19, 2014
It's time to talk about where we could make changes that would help families.
May 19, 2014
Actually, I should add to that people who are trying to work two jobs and how impossible that becomes for many.
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