Bernie Sanders: "$7.25 an hour - Most people understand that’s a Starvation Wage."

[kpete]

Look. Here’s the story. The story is that the national minimum wage is seven and a quarter an hour. I think most people understand that’s a starvation wage. Individuals can’t live on it. Families can’t live on it. If we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, which to my mind doesn’t go as far as it should, that would be a raise for 30 million Americans, vast majority of them are adults. And that’s just not people making seven and a quarter an hour. It’s people making eight bucks an hour, nine dollars an hour.

And at a time when almost all new income is going to the top 1%, it is time that working people, lower income workers get a raise, and we have got to do that. Now if the Republicans refuse to go along with that, and I very much hope that they will go along with it. I hope they understand that the overwhelming majority of the American people across the political spectrum understand that we have got to raise the minimum wage, so I hope that we can get this done.

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[woo me with science]

1. We need you, Bernie Sanders.

K&R

[Demo_Chris]

2. Can we elect THIS guy as President? nt

[Laelth]

3. k&r for Bernie Sanders. n/t

-Laelth

[LuckyLib]

4. Most people, that is, except those complete idiots that occupy Congress.

[fascisthunter]

5. And the Mega Rich andmost of it's Government Don't Care