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Bill Clinton: We should be having a high-opportunity, smart-work, high-wage future, not a hard-work, low-wage future.

On the recordJuly 27, 1995
We should be having a high-opportunity, smart-work, high-wage future, not a hard-work, low-wage future.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the American Federation of Teachers

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