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Tom Emmer: “Unless Americans have gotten a 15.3-percent pay raise in the last 2 years, they have effectively gotten a pay cut.”

On the recordJune 12, 2023
Unless Americans have gotten a 15.3-percent pay raise in the last 2 years, they have effectively gotten a pay cut.
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Tom Emmer
Republican · Minnesota

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Emmer argues that real income hasn't kept up with rising costs.

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