The most recent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office said that even a $17 per hour raise would result in massive job cuts. Would your bill actually do more harm than good? No, it wouldn't. And There's plenty of economic analysis to show that if you gradually raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour, you're more jobs than you're going to lose. And my bill doesn't do it automatically, but this is actually a unifying issue. And so when I talk about how you bring Republicans who voted for Trump over to the Democratic side, an aggressive increase in the minimum wage is part of the answer. (06:55–07:07)
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Asserts that economic analysis supports a gradual increase to a $25 minimum wage without net job loss.
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