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Mind. lower income workers lose ground. but in the last year we have seen the bottom quartile of workers see their wages rise and it is pretty striking. what do you make of that? how has that happened and what could put it at risk? >> rise and almost at unprecedented rates. i think that's because those jobs, the lower income jobs, have tended to be the jobs that have to be done in a specific place and where exposure to the virus is highest. and so there is not a lot of labor supply in the economist language. people don't want to go work for the same low wages that they did before, if they're g...

Much work we have to do. "a", to win the two seats in georgia to give democrats control over the senate and, "b", to move forward an agenda that finally speaks to the needs of working families and not just the very wealthy. >> senator sanders, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. i want to go to heidi heitcamp. you searched with bernie sandeis in the senate. you come dfrom a different wing. what is your sense of what you heard? >> you look at the recovery from covid and you think about, you know, the president says, look, we're coming back, we're coming back. the bottom quartile is no...

And the opportunity is life changing. these kids who are basically rhodes scholar quality have the intellectual capacity, and happen to come from worst or at least moderate means. that's an extraordinary gift that we are able to further. as part of that, we want to address all those other kids who have similar needs. it turns out that high performing, low-income kids are fragile. and fragile in ways no one anticipates. if you take the kids who are in the top quartile on reading scores and at the same time the bottom quartile in wealth or income fully 22% of them never even apply to college. th...

Themselves, i'll tell you, our schools have to be the best in the world. not in the bottom quartile. >> we the how to do that. i won't go through all the policy but let me tell you this: it starts with a very clear recognition, that we put our kids and their parents and the teachers first, and the teachers union, they go behind. [cheers and applause]. >> number 3, number 3, we have to have trade that works for an america, it is good to trade with other nations, that helps a productive nation like us and helps boost wages and jobs but we can't trade with people if they cheat without consequence...

Comment that if you own a small business you didn't build that told the audience here it, quote, runs counter to the american spirit. and while the presumptive gop nominee also faulted his fellow republicans for ballooning he didn't specify who and governor romney took a shot at public sector unions. >> our schools have to be the best in the world and not in the bottom quartile. we know how to do that. i won't go through all of the policy, but let me tell you this, it starts with a very clear that we put our kids and their parents and the teachers first and the teacher's union and -- union the...