Colorado’s Bennet reminds Republicans: Americans working on minimum wage make barely over $15,000 a year from those jobs

Right now, if you work forty hours a week in America, in the greatest country in the world, at a federal minimum wage, you make barely over $15,000 a year. Think about how crazy that is.

— Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, admonishing his Republican colleagues over their opposition to raising the federal minimum wage.