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Murphy backs $25 minimum wage bill
Key takeaways
- Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday touted his minimum wage bill that aims to gradually increase worker pay from $7.25 to $25 hourly.
- I put one on the table last week, a $25 minimum wage.
- So I do think that there is somewhat of a trend that candidates who are confronting concentrated corporate power in a meaningful way are winning.
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Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday touted his minimum wage bill that aims to gradually increase worker pay from $7.25 to $25 hourly.
I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the table last week, a $25 minimum wage. And I think we do have to have answers for the way in which corporations and billionaires are taking over and corrupting our politics, Murphy said during an appearance on NBC s Meet the Press.
So I do think that there is somewhat of a trend that candidates who are confronting concentrated corporate power in a meaningful way are winning. And I think that that is something that the Democratic Party should pay attention to, he added.
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