On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke with reporters about the federal minimum wage proposal.
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00:00The minimum wage has an increase in 15 years, but right now, adjusted for inflation, it's at its lowest level since like 1950.
00:08Nobody can afford to buy anything. I noticed that these corporations are happy to raise prices on everybody all the time.
00:14They're happy to give their CEOs huge pay increases. CEO compensation is up like 100% in the last just five or six years.
00:22But working people haven't gotten a raise in years, so I just think it's basic justice.
00:27It's time to give American workers a raise.