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Ruben Gallego: “The individual worker needs to be paid more, which is one of…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Because again, you have efficiency, you have less workers, you're able to scale up and faster on innovations, but at the same time you're going to have a declining population of actual workers. And so the two things that need to occur is that The individual worker needs to be paid more, which is one of the things why I'm a big advocate for higher minimum wage. We talk about that in our prosperity agenda and one that continues to grow with inflation. (18:23–18:30)

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Advocates for a higher minimum wage to ensure workers are paid more.

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