“Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job. It's indentured servitude. All labor has dignity and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and the value that they are worth... We have to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.”

Twitter Post https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1134631705153802241, (31 May 2019)
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