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JB Pritzker: “Minimum wage nationally is $7.25. You cannot live on that.”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 15:31

We're the party that fights for the most vulnerable. We're the ones who got the, you know, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Civil Rights act, look, why didn't anybody talk about raising the minimum wage? Minimum wage nationally is $7.25. You cannot live on that. If you have one full time job earning the minimum wage, two full time jobs earning that minimum wage, and every Republican is opposed to raising the minimum wage. (15:31–15:35)

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Asserts that the national minimum wage is $7.25 and is insufficient for living.

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