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Bernie Sanders: “Reducing the work week which is from 40 to 32 which Wideway…”

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

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Theo Von Interviews Bernie Sanders on American Politics and 2024 Election

Published | Video Starts at 1:00:50

Would you have to raise the pay of people then? Oh, I guess you would because they're. Yeah. You know what if you reduce. What we're doing here is Reducing the work week which is from 40 to 32 which Wideway has not been changed since like in 40, 44. Yeah. And that's when people had to do crops and everything. Yeah, yeah. People were just. Yeah, people were smitting by lightning bug. So we are a much wealthier Nation now. (1:00:50–1:00:59)

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Asserts that the standard work week has not changed from 40 hours since around 1944.

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