The best argument for raising the minimum wage to $15 comes from @JoeBiden: No American who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.

Jan 17, 2021 · 6:01 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @VictoriaLBruce @JoeBiden
$15/hr is poverty in most major cities. We need stronger solutions that won't kill small business and make @amazon and other global corporations contribute to our safety net.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
This suggests people who work fewer than 40 hours a week are fair game to get fucked by poverty. And that ain’t true. UBI for all. Eliminate poverty entirely.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @joshfoxfilm @JoeBiden
That's Bernie's postion he has been saying this for over 6 years. We are winning at pushing Biden a little more left if he is starting to parrot Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders
 @SenSanders
3 Sep 2014
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty. #FightFor15 #RaiseTheWage
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
Don't give Joe credit for repeating something that someone else' said, Joe doesn't mean it, he was told it polled well when Bernie said it, and just regurgitated it.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
It's a Bernie talking point, but it's nice to see Biden adopt it.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
Actually that is Bernie's saying but go ahead and give Biden (who was against it for a LONG time) credit.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
Lol. And why didn't he raise it when he and Obama had a supermajority for 5 months in 2009? Stop giving this man credit. Just stop.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
You mean plagiarizing Bernie Sanders? 🙄
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Replying to @marwilliamson @BerningGreen @JoeBiden
Biden is infamous for pushing austerity cuts on disabled and seniors. This message that only "working" people deserve the dignity of living without poverty is AWFUL and WRONG.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JoeBiden
Pretty sure this is Bernie’s argument.
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