You want to help people out, put money in their pockets. I made this argument that If you raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, 61,000 Pennsylvanians who make below 15 bucks an hour, if you just pay them $15 or more, you'll save $300 million in our Medicaid budget. So I tried to appeal to the Republicans, say, even if you don't want to do this out of the goodness of your own heart because it's the right thing to do, maybe you want to curtail some entitlement spending. (33:03–33:19)
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