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Beto O'Rourke: “Raise the minimum wage, peg future raises on a yearly basis…”

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

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… that stuff, then I can't blame anybody for voting the other side, even though they are selling snake oil and people's lives are getting worse under this administration. So yes, Raise the minimum wage, peg future raises on a yearly basis to the consumer price index or some other measure of inflation in this country. But then you've got to go well beyond that to those other economic democracy measures that we talked about, including, especially in this state, making it safe, legal to be … (1:17:05–1:17:14)

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Asserts that the minimum wage should be raised and future raises should be tied to inflation.

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