Sherrod Brown: “I found overwhelming support for the minimum wage. In Ohio, 500,000 people got a raise because of what the voters in…”

“I found overwhelming support for the minimum wage. In Ohio, 500,000 people got a raise because of what the voters in Ohio did in November, with overwhelming support of the minimum wage. Two hundred thousand children live in those 500,000 homes. Those are still families who often don't have health insurance, who often have great problems finding daycare for their children when they are holding their minimum wage jobs. Those are families who are struggling to provide the opportunity for their children to go to school. We know all that. At least one thing we can do here is increase the minimum wage to give those families--not just in Youngstown and in Ravenna, and not just in Springfield and in Xenia--a real chance to raise their children.”