claim: says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: sep 25, 2016 ... hillary clinton on income and minimum wage: cnn's reality check team vets  the claims ..... "he would give wealthy families 30 or 40 cents on the dollar for  their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hard-working families trying to  afford child care so they can get to work and hold the job," she said.
evidence_2: may 9, 2016 ... sanders, who supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, has used his  stance as a wedge to win liberal primary voters away from clinton. ... has been  steady at $7.25 since 2009 -- and it's 40 percent higher than the all-time highest  inflation-adjusted minimum wage level, $10.69 in february 1968.
evidence_3: mar 28, 2016 ... minimum wage increases have been a politically charged issue for years, and  that's not likely to change once president barack obama leaves office in january.  the minimum wage was last raised back in 2009 to $7.25 per hour. obama has  said he'd support efforts to raise that to $12 per hour, but many ...
evidence_4: apr 15, 2016 ... does hillary clinton think the federal minimum wage should be $12 an hour or  $15? this question produced one of the more heated back-and-forths in an april  14 democratic presidential debate between clinton and opponent sen. bernie  sanders — starting when clinton asserted that she has ...
evidence_5: dec 15, 2015 ... it's about time to raise the minimum wage, writes economist john komlos. ... he  know what it feels like to keep one's head above water as the 1.3 million people  working at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour do? ... if adjusted  for inflation, the minimum wage of 1968 would be $10.90 today.