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Maxine Waters: “It is nothing short of a moral outrage that our essential workers, upon whom all of us depend, increasingly cannot…”

On the recordJune 8, 2021
It is nothing short of a moral outrage that our essential workers, upon whom all of us depend, increasingly cannot afford to live in a city or a country that could not survive and succeed without them.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Maxine Waters emphasizes the importance of affordable housing for essential workers.

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