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Bernie Sanders: “Federal minimum wage is 7 and a quarter.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sanders Interview Lex Fridman Podcast #450

Published | Video Starts at 43:48

And that was a fair question because you got, I don't know how many, but many, Many thousands of McDonald's workers and millions of other American workers right now are trying to get by on 9, 10, 11 bucks an hour. Federal minimum wage is 7 and a quarter. You have people working in McDonald's right now for sure who are working for 12, 13 bucks an hour. So the reporter said, how, you know, what do you think about raising the federal minimum wage? (43:48–43:51)

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Asserts that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.

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