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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We need to raise a living wage in America.”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod

Published | Video Starts at 10:38

These are very clear mechanisms of economic agency. And we have to. I mean, on the other end of things, fight for working people. We need. We need to guarantee health care in America. We need to raise a living wage in America. We need to codify voting rights and legal representation, and we need to be investing in our educational systems, basic economic rights that should be available, that define what it means to have human dignity. (10:38–10:43)

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Advocates for raising the living wage in the U.S.

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