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Donald Norcross: “Raising the minimum wage to $12 would reduce government spending on entitlement programs by $17 billion.”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2019
Raising the minimum wage to $12 would reduce government spending on entitlement programs by $17 billion.
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Donald Norcross
Democratic · New Jersey

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Norcross claims that increasing the minimum wage would decrease entitlement spending.

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