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JB Pritzker: “Where have we been on the minimum wage? $7.25. Do you think…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 54:21

It's never happened before. But one thing that was disappointing about the campaign, and I'm not putting this on the candidate, I think it's on Democrats writ large. Where have we been on the minimum wage? $7.25. Do you think anybody thinks that's reasonable? I can tell you no. Even Republicans think $7.25 an hour, $14,000 a year is not enough to live on. So we should have been out there. That's just one. (54:21–54:27)

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Asserts that the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 is unreasonable.

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