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Bernie Sanders: “Over the last 52 years, real inflation, adjusted for wages…”

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

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Sen. Bernie Sanders talks ongoing government shutdown, message to "No Kings" protesters

Published | Video Starts at 05:08

They didn't vote to say, let's throw 15 million people, including many of us, off of the health care they had. They voted because they did not see a strong alternative. Here's the reality. Over the last 52 years, real inflation, adjusted for wages for the average American worker, have not gone up. They are fine. Politifact says that's untrue. They say it's gone up 11%. No, I stand by what we said 50 years ago compared to today, real weekly inflation accounted for, wages are low. (05:08–05:17)

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Asserts that real wages for the average American worker have not increased over the last 52 years.

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