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Joe Courtney: “The reason the exclusion was so devastating to African Americans is that from 1930 to 1940, 40 percent of Southern…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2019
The reason the exclusion was so devastating to African Americans is that from 1930 to 1940, 40 percent of Southern Blacks were in agriculture.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney explains the historical impact of minimum wage exclusions on African American workers.

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