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Tom Harkin: “I tend to lean more toward looking at child labor, because they have no one to stick up for them.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2010
I tend to lean more toward looking at child labor, because they have no one to stick up for them.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin prioritizes child labor issues over general workforce rights.

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