And, and even if you hold two minimum wage jobs, $28,000 a year, you can't raise a family on that. Maybe you could survive alone on that. So why are we allowing people to live at $7.25? By the way, The tipped wage in this country is about $2.20 an hour. Ridiculous. We need to raise wages in this country and start with the minimum wage. So I give that as an example because health care and people earning enough to live on those seem like basic fundamentals of who we are as Democrats. (07:11–07:16)
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