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Tom Harkin: We need to be looking at ways, and that's where I'm hoping that voc rehab now can begin to focus on young people.

On the recordSeptember 14, 2011
We need to be looking at ways, and that's where I'm hoping that voc rehab now can begin to focus on young people.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin emphasizes the need for vocational rehabilitation to support young people with disabilities.

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