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Robert Wirch: “They made it harder to get unemployment compensation, harder…”

Featuring: Robert Wirch, Democratic | Wisconsin State Senate, District 22

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Interview with Senator Robert Wirch

Published | Video Starts at 04:48

That's really the only way I can describe it. And so obviously he helps big corporations and rich people. I always say in the last budget, they declared war on poor people. They made it harder to get unemployment compensation, harder to get earned income tax credit, harder to get homestead. They refused to give us even a hearing on raising the minimum wage. All of the states around Wisconsin have a higher minimum wage than Wisconsin. (04:48–04:56)

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Asserts that it has become more difficult to access unemployment compensation, earned income tax credit, and homestead.

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