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Eleanor Holmes Norton: Well, my God, we have been doing this--we have had, you know, we either have had two-parent families where both go out…

On the recordNovember 15, 2016
Well, my God, we have been doing this--we have had, you know, we either have had two-parent families where both go out to work or single-parent families where we hope somebody is working for a very long time, and the notion that we don't know that people aren't home in the middle of the day.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton emphasizes the need for understanding working patterns in census data collection.

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