On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) responded to Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) proposal to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour by saying that “I’m delighted that Sen. Murphy is talking about this and I think the voting record of a lot of us, the Democrats that had led on this before is we’re willing to do it, it was $15, plus inflation adjustments.”
Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “I want to ask you, quickly, with our small amount of time remaining here, Congressman, if you think raising the minimum wage would help. … Chris Murphy, the Senator from Connecticut, Democrat, is up with a bill to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour. It would be incremental. Big companies would have six years to get there from what is now 7.25. Small companies would have a 13-year runway. Is that something that could gain support?”
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