05/11/2023
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"We need the Republicans to understand that workers in their states can’t make it on $7.25 and $10 an hour, they have got to join us and help us raise that minimum wage to $17 an hour."
"There’s some kind of mythology out there that the only people working for minimum wage are kids trying to make some extra spending money … and that is not the case."
"That is not what people fought and died to create in this country."
"What these trade agreements, in essence, said to corporate America: ‘Hey, no problem. You can throw American workers out on the street.’"