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Sanders to introduce federal minimum wage hike bill

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Sen. Bernie Sanders announced plans to file a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

"The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is a starvation wage. That is why I, along with many other members of Congress, will introduce legislation this week to raise that wage to $15 an hour. If you work 40 hours a week, you should not live in poverty," he said via Twitter.

To start 2019, 20 states, including Missouri, raised their minimum wages.

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