I thank the gentlelady, and I hope she will remain with us, because the gentlelady is pointing out distinctions that the public is largely unaware of. Some of these job categories that my friend from Maryland points to ought to be instructive: rocket scientists, VA nurse, park ranger, cancer researcher, prison guards. It's interesting that the cooks in the Bureau of Prisons are probably paid more than the cooks in the private sector because they have supervision of prisoners, who also work in the kitchen. How do you measure that? You don't do it by throwing out a bunch of statistics, public versus private, and believe that that tells the whole story.
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I thank the gentlelady, and I hope she will remain with us, because the gentlelady is pointing out distinctions that the…”
On the recordMarch 10, 2011
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The speaker discusses the complexities of job categories and pay differences in public versus private sectors.
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