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J.B. Pritzker on Welfare & Poverty

 

 


Low minimum wage is sentence to poverty

Many of you asked me why I made passing a $15 minimum wage an immediate priority. The current minimum wage is $8.25 an hour--which means even if you are working full time every week out of the year, you are making $17,000 a year. You can't send your kids to college on $17,000 a year. You can't afford a single health emergency. You can't sustain child care. And one paycheck is often the only firewall against homelessness. The current minimum wage is a lifetime sentence to poverty.
Source: 2019 State of the State address to the Illinois legislature , Feb 20, 2019

Other governors on Welfare & Poverty: J.B. Pritzker on other issues:
IL Gubernatorial:
Barack Obama
Darren Bailey
Jesse Sullivan
Paul Schimpf
Richard Irvin
IL Senatorial:
Don Tracy
Juliana Stratton
Kathy Salvi
Peggy Hubbard
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Richard Durbin
Robin Kelly
Tammy Duckworth

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