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Eleanor Holmes Norton: Sixty-eight percent of the American people are saying that they are willing to pay more to clear the rolls. I want to…

On the recordMay 4, 1994
Sixty-eight percent of the American people are saying that they are willing to pay more to clear the rolls. I want to ask you about a person like a hypothetical Mary who worked all of her life, lived in a steel town, got laid off, used up her unemployment insurance, had to go on welfare, now has no job. There are no jobs of the kind she was trained for. Want to be trained for a permanent job. Why, Mr. Shaw, should not Mary be trained for a permanent job so that she can leave welfare? She has a work history all her life.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Discussing the need for job training for individuals on welfare.

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