Bernie Sanders: “We've got to raise that minimum wage to a living wage, at…”

“I don't care where you lived. You know, you can be in rural Wisconsin or New York City. Nobody makes it on $12 an hour. We've got to raise that minimum wage to a living wage, at least $17 an hour. Now, one of the very exciting and very positive things that's happened in this country in the last several years is we have seen a significant growth in the militancy of the trade union movement in America.” (47:58–48:05)

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