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Elizabeth Warren: “Low wages have been one of the reasons that we have hollowed out America's middle class.”

On the recordJune 5, 2013
Low wages have been one of the reasons that we have hollowed out America's middle class.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses the impact of low wages on the middle class.

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