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Our recovery plan also calls for an increase in the minimum wage at 15, at least $15 an hour.
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No one in America should work 40 hours a week making below the poverty line.
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$15 gets people above the poverty line.
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We have so many millions of people working 40 hours a week working on some with two jobs, and they're still below the poverty line.
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Our plan includes access to affordable child care that's gonna enable parents, particularly women, to get back to work.
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Millions were not working now because they don't have that care.
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All told, the American rescue plan would live 12 million Americans out of poverty and cut child poverty in half.
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That's five million Children lifted out of poverty.
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Our plan to reduce poverty in the black community by one third reduce poverty and Hispanic community, but almost 40% I look forward.