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JB Pritzker: “The minimum wage is $7.25. It's about $14,000 a year. If you…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 06:43

So that's part of the agenda. Universal health care. Another part of the agenda is we've got to raise the minimum wage in this country. You know, The minimum wage is $7.25. It's about $14,000 a year. If you have one full time job, you can't survive on 14 as a single person. You can't. There's no place in the country. And, and even if you hold two minimum wage jobs, $28,000 a year, you can't raise a family on that. (06:43–06:54)

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Asserts that the federal minimum wage is $7.25, equating to $14,000 a year, which is insufficient for survival.

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