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Beto O'Rourke: “If we kept the minimum wage relative to what it was in 1973…”

Featuring: Beto O'Rourke, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 1:16:10

When I mentioned the 50 trillion that has been moved from working Americans, middle class, lower income Americans to the wealthiest, one of the ways in which that has been done is a failure to move the minimum wage up. If we, If we kept the minimum wage relative to what it was in 1973 or 1975, it would be well north of $30 an hour. hour. What is it to 51 5? Okay, it might even be higher than that. I've seen numbers that are, that are higher than that. (1:16:10–1:16:14)

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Asserts that adjusting the minimum wage to 1973 or 1975 levels would result in a rate over $30 an hour.

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