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Andrew Cuomo: “We raised the minimum wage to the highest in the United…”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Published | Video Starts at 1:27:56

And I'm opposed to that. Thank you, Mr. Cuomo. Yeah, I have agreed with Curtis. There is. Zoron does have socialist theory colliding with practical reality. I went through this. We raised the minimum wage to the highest in the United States of America. New York set the bar. We set it at $15. Every other state said, that's crazy when we did it. People in the state said that was crazy when we did it. But it was calibrated, it was doable. (1:27:56–1:28:05)

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Asserts that New York set the highest minimum wage in the U.S. at $15.

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