Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Unfortunately, over the last decade at least, the American Dream has slipped slowly out of reach for many families."

"Do we have a challenge with the pace of technological change in having other parts of the economy change fast enough to create replacement living-wage jobs?"

"We are going to keep pursuing these issues because citizens across the country demand it."

"the challenge of living-wage jobs disappearing and much lower wage jobs reappearing."