The biggest mistake we did as Democrats is that we dropped the minimum wage and we just, every time we put up the fight for it, we just kind of dropped it later on. We should, A, make sure that we minute wage catches up and B, that it never falls behind should always be indexed 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? (20:49–20:56)
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Asserts that the minimum wage should be adjusted to catch up and be indexed to inflation.
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