… to paycheck, struggling every week to put food on the table, to pay the rent, to deal with child care, to take care, with health care. Madam President, real wages, Real wages...for the average American worker have been stagnant for the last 50 years despite a huge increase in worker productivity. And today, all across this country, you have workers working for 11, 12, 13 bucks an hour, working for starvation wages. Some of them are actually sleeping in their costs. (01:46–01:59)
CLAIM
Asserts that real wages have not increased in 50 years despite higher productivity.
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