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Frederica Wilson: We can no longer insist that people pull themselves up by their bootstraps when they make the poverty wages.

On the recordJune 9, 2015
We can no longer insist that people pull themselves up by their bootstraps when they make the poverty wages.
Said by
Frederica Wilson
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing the notion of self-reliance amid low wages.

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