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Mandela Barnes: “People's wages are not keeping up with inflation. People's…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Mandela Barnes on MSNOW's The Weekend

Published | Video Starts at 06:11

Cost of living feels like an issue, you know, for a lot of different election cycles, but hasn't been as bad as it now. People's wages are not keeping up with inflation. People's wages are also not keeping up with greed because there is a level of price gouging involved. And I want to talk about that too, because with gas prices that are going up because of the illegal war in Iran, we also see these oil and gas companies making record profits. (06:11–06:20)

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Asserts that wages are not keeping up with inflation and price gouging.

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