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Michael Bennet: “One of the things that I am worried about in our country is that we have seen periods of growth in the 1980s and the…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
One of the things that I am worried about in our country is that we have seen periods of growth in the 1980s and the 1990s where there was a relationship between the growing GDP and growing wages and growing jobs.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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Bennet expresses concern over the disconnect between economic growth and job creation.

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