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Elizabeth Warren: “When Senator Manchin talks about the difference between using a Chained CPI for some people and perhaps not for others…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 2013
When Senator Manchin talks about the difference between using a Chained CPI for some people and perhaps not for others, what you are really doing is just acknowledging that, at least as the Chained CPI has been laid out, we are just talking about over time a cut in benefits.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses the implications of using Chained CPI on benefits.

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