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Rebecca Cooke: “I want to expand our federal minimum wage to be $15 an hour.”

Featuring: Rebecca Cooke, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 3

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Rebecca Cooke

Published | Video Starts at 07:05

There's some folks on the state level that are working to flip that on its head. But as somebody that's running for a federal office, I want to expand our federal minimum wage to be $15 an hour. And that's a starting point. You know, I think that workers need to be paid fairer wages when you've got corporations that are reporting record profits, price gouging consumers and not paying their workers. (07:05–07:09)

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