‘We Basically Made Recovery Much, Much Harder Than It Has to Be’

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‘We Basically Made Recovery Much, Much Harder Than It Has to Be’

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Nov 20, 2020

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"Centering workers in a genuine recovery, and really trying to rebuild economic security, it's going to take movement on a bunch of fronts."
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