Pete Buttigieg: “If you were born the year that my mother was born, at the…”

“I think we certainly need to be practicing this at a national level and, and many people are looking around and seeing that their circumstances have not improved. If you were born the year that my mother was born, at the end of World War II, there was a 90% likelihood in the US that you would end up economically better off than your parents. if you were born. The year that I was born, in the early 1980s, it was a coin flip, 50, 50.” (05:29–05:41)

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