Your article--which you repeated from uncut is purposely misleading you. The OP says she "who refused to endorse $15/hour"-" but then links to the Buzz feed article which tells a different story. Shame on Uncut (articles on that site looks like stuff the RW would use against Hillary!!) .
****You many not agree with the local approach but at least get the story right-AND per the NYtimes article below she endorsed the $15 hour in NY last summer.
From below:
Hillary:“I support the local efforts that are going on that are making it possible for people working in certain localities to actually earn 15,” Clinton said in a response to a question from BuzzFeed News during a press availability in New Hampshire on Thursday.
The link in OP
Uncut: ..........."By contrast, Hillary Clinton is the only prominent Democrat who refused to endorse $15/hour"----[and lots of smears]
Politics
Hillary Clinton is taking credit for the Fight for $15. Here’s why this is a betrayal of workers.
Mark Provost | April 4, 2016
http://usuncut.com/politics/hillary-15-hour-minimum-wage/
The above has an embedded link to this:---note--this addresses the local vs National approach!
Hillary Clinton Declines To Support A National $15 Minimum Wage
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kyleblaine/hillary-clinton-declines-to-support-a-national-15-minimum-wa#.gtMadpb5vn
Clinton says she supports raising the national minimum wage, but adds that “what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places.”
posted on Jul. 16, 2015, at 4:22 p.m.
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Hillary Clinton on Thursday wouldn’t commit to supporting a $15 national minimum wage but said she is working with Democrats in Congress who are determining how high it can be set.
“I support the local efforts that are going on that are making it possible for people working in certain localities to actually earn 15,” Clinton said in a response to a question from BuzzFeed News during a press availability in New Hampshire on Thursday.
“I think part of the reason that the Congress and very strong Democratic supporters of increasing the minimum wage are trying to debate and determine what’s the national floor is because there are different economic environments. And what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places.”
In June, Clinton spoke by phone to a gathering of “Fight for 15” organizers, a national movement to raise the minimum wage to $15.
“We need more cities and states to follow the lead of Los Angeles, St. Louis, and New York,” Clinton said then, referring city legislatures that raised their local minimum wages to $15.......................
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Jul.24--2015
10:26 am ET By Maggie Haberman
Hillary Clinton to Back $15 Fast-Food Minimum Wage in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/24/hillary-clinton-to-back-15-fast-food-minimum-wage-in-new-york/?_r=0
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday will use a speech focused on growing the economy to endorse a $15-an-hour minimum wage proposal for fast-food workers recommended by a New York panel, a person briefed on her plans said.
The remarks from Mrs. Clinton will come in the city where the fast-food workers’ labor effort first started several years ago. A panel created by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday recommended the change; the increase will occur faster in New York City than other parts of the state because of the higher cost of living there.
Some Democrats are pushing for the federal minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour, including two other candidates for the party’s presidential nomination: Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator, and Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor.
Mrs. Clinton has argued that the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour needs to be increased, but she has not gone so far as to endorse an increase to $15. Her embrace of the New York recommendation for fast-food workers will be her first endorsement of a $15-per-hour minimum in any context.
In a town hall in New Hampshire, Mrs. Clinton suggested a nuanced view of the national minimum-wage debate, one that is more localized than a uniform change in federal policy.
“I think part of the reason that the Congress and very strong Democratic supporters of increasing the minimum wage are trying to debate and determine what’s the national floor is because there are different economic environments,” Mrs. Clinton said. “And what you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places.”
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