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Xavier Becerra: It is my understanding, and it has been a while since I was in college as a graduate student as well, that these…

On the recordJuly 10, 1997
It is my understanding, and it has been a while since I was in college as a graduate student as well, that these graduate students, we are talking not about so much the business school and law school and medical school graduates, but the folks studying science and chemistry and mathematics, that they average about $10,000 to $15,000 in income. How much of a tax does this bill impose on those types of students?
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California

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Questioning the tax implications of a bill on graduate students in science and mathematics.

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