… to inflation, like we index Social Security, like we index VA payments, all this kind of stuff. Why are we letting wages of working class people fall behind every year? If we had not done that, the average minimum wage, you know, right now would be somewhere around the mid-20s. Instead, you know, you have places that are still, you know, the low teens, some places even less than that. (21:04–21:10)
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Asserts that without certain actions, the average minimum wage would be in the mid-20s.
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