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Graham Platner: “The needs of working people today are exactly the same as…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Right to a house, right to a good job that pays you a living wage, right to an education, right to join a union and organize. These are things that today, when you read through his Economic Bill of Rights, The needs of working people today are exactly the same as the needs of working people in 1944. Whoever would have guessed? Now we're going to add some more things in about right to data, right to live in a society that is not monopolized by corporate power. (25:26–25:31)

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Asserts that the economic needs of workers have not changed since 1944.

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