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Tom Harkin: “If we want at the very least to preserve the existing middle class, we have to continue to extend unemployment benefits.”

On the recordJuly 25, 2011
If we want at the very least to preserve the existing middle class, we have to continue to extend unemployment benefits.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Emphasizing the need to extend unemployment benefits to support the middle class.

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