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Eva M. Clayton: “I rise to urge early hearings on the proposal to increase the minimum wage. The Speaker has promised to have hearings…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1995
I rise to urge early hearings on the proposal to increase the minimum wage. The Speaker has promised to have hearings scheduled. Those hearings should be scheduled soon. We are slashing the school lunch and breakfast program. We are removing thousands of women, infants, and children from the WIC Program. We are cutting education programs, and programs that move teenagers from school to work, including complete elimination of the Summer Jobs Program. We are slicing away at public housing support programs. And, while telling the poor they must work to eat, we have yet to give any consideration to a modest increase in the minimum wage. Mr. Speaker, somewhere in these first 100 days, we should find time to give the millions of minimum wage workers a hearing on the subject to their wages. If we want to force citizens to work to eat, let us provide a livable wage so that they can earn enough to feed themselves.
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Eva M. Clayton
North Carolina
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Addressing the need for hearings on increasing the minimum wage during a speech in Congress.

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