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Bernie Sanders: “Real inflation accounted for wages for the average American…”

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

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Bernie speaks with @hasanabi (LIVE AT 5PM ET)

Published | Video Starts at 08:25

What are you seeing? You're seeing that in many ways you are no better off, in some cases worse off than a worker in your place 50 years ago. You got that Real inflation accounted for wages for the average American worker [are] not making a nickel more than [50 years ago]. despite the huge increase in worker productivity and technology, all the computers, all the cell phones, an average worker in real inflation accounts for those not making a nickel more than he or she did 50 years ago. (08:25–08:31)

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Asserts that real wages for the average American worker have not increased in 50 years.

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