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Bernie Sanders Calls For $17 Hourly Minimum Wage

May 8, 2023

It’s no longer the fight for $15 for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).

The self-described democratic socialist is now pushing for a $ 17-an-hour minimum wage.

“Nobody in this country can survive on $7.25. And maybe some of my colleagues in Congress might want to live for a month on seven-and-a-quarter and see what that’s like,” Sanders said, according to ABC 6.

As Sanders points out, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It has not changed since 2009.

Supporting a $15-an-hour minimum wage was a key policy point for Sanders in his unsuccessful 2016 and 2020 Democratic primary presidential bids.

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