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Raphael Warnock: “The idea that someone who is low income has some kind of pathology where they would not want to work to make more…”

On the recordOctober 20, 2021
The idea that someone who is low income has some kind of pathology where they would not want to work to make more money... is pretty ridiculous.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Warnock refutes the notion that low-income individuals lack motivation to work.

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