09/12/2017
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"As an economist, you can work with us and tell us the tools or the things that can be done, like increasing the minimum wage, that might improve livable wages for individuals, correct?"
"What would you say to those individuals that you are doing to ensure, one, it does not happen again and, two, improve the wage growth for them?"
"If you are in your community--and I am hoping you are--and you are talking to people across America, you know that wages have been flat since 1973."
"And while three-fourths of whites responded in a recent Federal Reserve survey that they were doing at least OK financially in 2017--at least OK, only two-thirds of African Americans and Hispanics res..."