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Harry Reid: “I ask the Senator: You have talked about minimum wage. It is true, is it not, as you have said, that 60 percent of the…”

On the recordApril 28, 1999
I ask the Senator: You have talked about minimum wage. It is true, is it not, as you have said, that 60 percent of the people who draw minimum wage are women? Is that true?
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Questioning a colleague about the demographics of minimum wage earners.

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