Bernie Sanders: “We got to raise the federal minimum wage to a living minimum…”

“It's not a radical idea to say that a $7.25 an hour minimum wage is insane. That We got to raise the federal minimum wage to a living minimum wage at least $20 an hour. It is not insane to say that instead of putting $1.1 trillion into a bloated military, we should be investing billions of dollars to build the millions of units of of low income and affordable housing that we need.” (05:30–05:38)

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