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Ron Wyden: “That promise to the middle-class worker that, on average, they were going to get a $4,000 pay raise, has not been kept.”

On the recordApril 23, 2018
That promise to the middle-class worker that, on average, they were going to get a $4,000 pay raise, has not been kept.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden states that the promised wage increase for workers has not materialized.

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