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Statement From Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins on Minimum Wage
Andrea Stewart-Cousins
March 27, 2015
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ISSUE:
- Labor
- Minimum Wage
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“As more and more items are being removed from this year’s State Budget, I am especially concerned that efforts to increase the minimum wage seemed to have stalled. Now is the time to help the hard working men and women who are struggling because of our already inadequately low minimum wage. We cannot miss another opportunity to help lift over 1.1 million New Yorkers out of poverty, and finally pass a meaningful minimum wage increase with indexing."
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