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Maxine Waters: “This suspicion--because certainly there's no evidence that people don't want to go back to work because of $600.”

On the recordJune 17, 2020
This suspicion--because certainly there's no evidence that people don't want to go back to work because of $600.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters challenges the notion that unemployment benefits discourage work.

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