claim: "increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: may 5, 2016 ... sanders supports raising the wage to $15 an hour, while clinton has backed a  raise to $12 an hour. (currently, it's $7.25 an hour.) "increasing the min. wage to  $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other  programs by over $7.6 billion a year," sanders tweeted.
evidence_2: increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps,  public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year. 6:49 am - 4 may  2016. 3,084 retweets; 6,627 likes; christian hart felicia dzhordan tereza  toni thayer faith_west_knox chrisvstheworld coco паша june hunt.
evidence_3: may 9, 2016 ... a side effect of the rush to increase minimum wage targets became clear to us in  a recent fact check. we rated mostly false a tweet by bernie sanders that said, " increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps,  public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year.".
evidence_4: oct 16, 2014 ... this issue brief examines the use of public assistance programs by low-wage  workers and assesses how raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 over ...  raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would reduce government expenditures on  current income-support programs by $7.6 billion per year—and ...
evidence_5: jul 5, 2017 ... they report the increase would shave $7.6 billion off annual government  spending on income-support programs. .... according to a 2015 report from the  national low income housing coalition, a worker must earn at least $15.50 an  hour (over twice the federal minimum wage) to be able to afford to rent a ...