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Gwen Moore: “We can certainly look at families in which there is a…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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Discussion on Economic Security and the True Cost of Living with Gwen Moore and Seven Letter Insight

Published | Video Starts at 29:56

If they would just get up off their lazy asses, come out of the basement playing video games, that we would not see these distortions. So we didn't measure productivity, right? No, we did not. But We can certainly look at families in which there is a full-time worker and what the rates of economic security are based on having a full-time, full-year worker for those families versus other families. So this model does show us some, some families that have two adults in it working and still we have these discrepancies even when there are two people working. (29:56–30:13)

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Asserts that economic security rates can be analyzed based on full-time, full-year employment in families.

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