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Bernie Sanders: “The current minimum wage of seven and a quarter an hour is a…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Speaks at the DNC Summer Meeting

Published | Video Starts at 10:45

America has got the song invested investing in our country, not just countries all over the world. We need a movement which says that every worker in this country deserves a living wage. Understands that. Understands that The current minimum wage of seven and a quarter an hour is a starvation wage. And that we are going to raise that minimum wage over the period of a few years to 15 bucks an hour of women making 78 cents on the dollar compared to men. (10:45–10:52)

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Asserts that the current federal minimum wage is insufficient for a living wage.

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