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Rep. Porter on GOP Opposing $15/Hour Wage Floor: ‘They’re Opposing People Being Able to Feed Themselves’

‘Raising the minimum wage as a gender issue’
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PORTER: “It translates very directly. And we have research showing this, that when you raise the wage, when you give a low-income family more money, the first thing that they do is they buy more nutritious food, and they buy food, they stop going hungry at the end of the month or between paychecks. So this will directly translate into improved living conditions. The ability to pay rent, to keep a roof over your head, to reduce homelessness, to be able to put food on the table. That’s what low-income families, minimum wage workers do when they get a hike in the rates. And when we hear people opposing the minimum wage, I think we have to call them out. They are literally opposing people being able to feed themselves after a hard day's work.”

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