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Catherine Cortez Masto: “If you are in your community--and I am hoping you are--and you are talking to people across America, you know that wages…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
If you are in your community--and I am hoping you are--and you are talking to people across America, you know that wages have been flat since 1973.
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada

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Cortez Masto highlights stagnant wages affecting her constituents since 1973.

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