Rashida Tlaib: The federal minimum wage 'should be $20 an hour'Washington Examiner, Jul 22, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $20 an hour.
"Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15," the Michigan Democrat said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday. "Now I think it should be $20 ... It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour."
Tlaib said the higher minimum was because the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up.
Tlaib, 42, has been on the front lines of the "Fight for $15." In 2018, the congresswoman was arrested during a protest in support of a national fast food workers walkout to demand a $15 per hour minimum wage.
"These corporations are making billions off of our blood and sweat," then-candidate Tlaib said. "That's the most American thing you can do today: to push back, because they are pushing our children into poverty, because we deserve better."
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