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Raphael Warnock: We call them essential workers. Often they don't make an essential wage.

On the recordOctober 26, 2021
We call them essential workers. Often they don't make an essential wage.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia

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Warnock highlights the disparity in wages for essential workers during the pandemic.

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