This includes making sure every child in America has access to high-quality pre-K, and raising the minimum wage so that no family that works hard and relies on a minimum wage is living in poverty.
The AP notes that Romney has supported cost-of-living minimum wage increases for a decade.
If today's study is correct, far more - around 20% - earn somewhere between the minimum and a living wage.
Ms Bennett argued that more manufacturing and food production had to take place in the UK to cut the transport of goods around the world, while the railways had to be renationalised and the minimum wage had to be a "living wage".
We have millions of Americans who are working hard every single day for minimum wage, living in poverty in America.
So here's an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year - let's tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on.
High paid executives, disconnected from the reality of low wage living, often set wages based on minimum wage because they believe it is a fair wage.
Demand Three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment and a twenty dollar hourly minimum wage for those who choose to work.
He mentioned his 2012 opponent, Mitt Romney, and said we should try his idea of tying the minimum wage to the cost of living.
Those who make more are responsible for supplementing their retirement and those who spent their life working for minimum wage will be used to living on that income.
However, these results apply to cases where the minimum wage stays pretty low - in other words, when it remains well below most definitions of the living wage.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have minimum wages above the federal level, and 10 states index their minimum wage to inflation to automatically rise with the cost of living.
"It would be argued that most employers in Jersey offer a living wage, there are only a couple of thousand workers on a minimum wage and they are the most vulnerable in society, " he said.
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