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On the recordMarch 23, 2021
If, as some of my colleagues suggested, that discrimination would not be in the interest of the free market, then what was the need for the civil rights law?
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Ro Khanna
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Khanna questions the assumption that the free market eliminates discrimination.

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