May 5, 2016 ... Sanders supports raising the wage to $15 an hour, while Clinton has backed a  raise to $12 an hour. (Currently, it's $7.25 an hour.) "Increasing the min. wage to  $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other  programs by over $7.6 billion a year," Sanders tweeted.
Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps,  public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year. 6:49 AM - 4 May  2016. 3,084 Retweets; 6,627 Likes; CHRISTIAN Hart Felicia Dzhordan Tereza  Toni Thayer Faith_west_Knox ChrisVSTheWorld coco Паша June Hunt.
May 9, 2016 ... A side effect of the rush to increase minimum wage targets became clear to us in  a recent fact check. We rated Mostly False a tweet by Bernie Sanders that said, " Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps,  public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year.".
Oct 16, 2014 ... This issue brief examines the use of public assistance programs by low-wage  workers and assesses how raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 over ...  Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would reduce government expenditures on  current income-support programs by $7.6 billion per year—and ...
Jul 5, 2017 ... They report the increase would shave $7.6 billion off annual government  spending on income-support programs. .... According to a 2015 report from the  National Low Income Housing Coalition, a worker must earn at least $15.50 an  hour (over twice the federal minimum wage) to be able to afford to rent a ...
Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year.