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Bernie Sanders: “Over the last 50 years, real inflation accounted for wages…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sander's Podcast Interview with Shawn Fain- President of the United Auto Workers

Published | Video Starts at 18:31

All right, what Sean and the uaw, in my view, have done, and Sean just said this is they hit a nerve and that is that. And I want to say this because very few people mention this fact Over the last 50 years, real inflation accounted for wages are actually lower today for the average American worker. compared to where they were. And you're talking about, you and I have talked about pensions in the past as being a very. Your grandparents, your parents worked in an automobile plant. (18:31–18:42)

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Asserts that real wages, adjusted for inflation, are lower today than they were 50 years ago for the average American worker.

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