But over the last many years, corporations have cut those back and as a result, we have a lot of seniors who are really struggling. It goes without saying that We've got to raise the minimum wage in this country, which is now a starvation wage of seven and a quarter an hour to, to at least $17 an hour. I'm happy to tell you that last week as part of this budget resolution process, we got every Democrat to support raising the minimum wage to 17 bucks an hour. (15:39–15:49)
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