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GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): We move now to the Pacific Northwest and part one of a Paul Solman series on the debate over raising the minimum wage.
Tonight, he has the latest on a story he first brought to our attention last fall.
It part of his ongoing reporting Making Sense of financial news.
PAUL SOLMAN (NewsHour): A lot was at stake last November in SeaTac, Washington, home of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, as local citizens decided the fate of a proposition to jack up the minimum wage there to $15 an hour, for thousands of workers, the promise of a huge pay hike, 63 percent if they were making the state minimum of $9.19 an hour, plus paid sick leave, which promised to be a benefit for the flying public as well.
WOMAN: Every employee that I work with comes to work sick because they have to put food on the table.
ABDIRAHMAN ABDULLAHI, Employee, Sea-Tac’s Hertz Car Rentals: Imagine you’re flying on an airplane. The worker who clean up the airplane before you fly, he was sick and he’s cleaning the airplane, imagine you eating on that table, you know?
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