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Eric Hovde: “Our labor participation rate's at 61%. That should be up…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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WMC Candidate Interview Series: Eric Hovde | US Senate Candidate

Published | Video Starts at 09:30

If we go about entitlement reform, we can pull a lot of Americans back into the workforce. That will solve a lot of those problems. I mean, again, Our labor participation rate's at 61%. That should be up around 65, 66%. That's a lot of workers coming back into the labor force. Secondly, we got to fix legal immigration so people can come here legally and work. We want to encourage that. (09:30–09:38)

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Asserts that the current U.S. labor participation rate is 61% and should be higher.

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