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Jimmy Carter: “I know from experience how a family feels when the mother or father, the breadwinner, are temporarily out of work.”

On the recordOctober 14, 1980
I know from experience how a family feels when the mother or father, the breadwinner, are temporarily out of work.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Yatesville, Pennsylvania Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at a Town Meeting.

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