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Pete Buttigieg: “The New Deal wasn't that long ago. It was in living memory.”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Mike Muse Interviews Pete Buttigieg on America's Future, Leadership & Public Service

Published | Video Starts at 22:48

You look at how the way Social Security was created and many of the great labor policies of the New Deal, which by the way, The New Deal wasn't that long ago. It was in living memory. right? Kind of carved out those jobs that were most likely to employ women and black and brown workers. The effects of that don't kind of gradually get diluted and go away over time. (22:48–22:51)

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Asserts that the New Deal is recent enough to be within living memory.

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