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Marco Rubio: “If you took my parents out of 1985 and moved them to 2023…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 19:02

She worked in everything from factories when we used to have them in Hialeah, Florida, all the way to a cashier and a stock clerk at Kmart. Okay? So she worked those jobs. If you took my parents out of 1985 and moved them to 2023 with those jobs, we would not own a home. Our life would be completely different. And my opportunities would have been very different. So that's reality. And I just think about it now. Some of that is a function of economic change. (19:02–19:11)

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Asserts that service sector jobs from 1985 would not support home ownership in 2023.

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