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On the recordMarch 8, 2011
I raise it because, from 2000 to 2008, the Wage and Hour Division lost 20 percent of its staff.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin discusses staffing issues in the Wage and Hour Division affecting wage enforcement.

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