Peggy Flanagan
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205 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Jul
Peggy Flanagan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And believe it or not, I will be one of the youngest people elected to the U.S.
Senate as a 46-year-old.
You know, and there's only four women, four moms with kids under the age of 18 who are serving in the U.S.
Senate.
Boy, you know, can you tell?
So it's time.
Absolutely.
So I am the former executive director of Children's Defense Fund, Minnesota.
And so when I was at Children's Defense Fund, I co-chaired the campaign to raise the minimum wage in Minnesota.
And the big fight for us was to make sure that we were also indexing it to inflation.
because costs were always going to go up.
So we needed families to catch up and then to keep up.
Now, every January for the last decade, we've seen an increase in the minimum wage here in Minnesota.
And the way that we talked about it is when you increase family income, you improve
child outcomes and a seven dollar and 25 minimum wage that hasn't been increased in 16 years is completely unacceptable so i believe that we need to fight for at least a 17 dollar minimum wage um to just be very clear that what we are seeing now 42 million americans who are on snap
many of those folks are working many of those folks right for example at walmart or amazon and we are subsidizing these companies because they do not pay their folks a wage that is high enough for them to not qualify uh for for public programs um it's outrageous so like they're spending you know their snap dollars at their employer it's double dipping let's just pay people a living wage so they can just live the lives that that they want to live
situation that we are facing right now.
It is folks at the very, very top.
It is greedy corporations who are getting sort of everything they want and need with a just free ticket from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that we have to say, like, who are we actually for the folks at the very, very top or people who literally are the ones who make this economy and this, you know, this country work?
It is overdue.
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