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Barack Obama: “Technology, globalization, the weakening of unions, all of this had shifted the basic bargain that had existed basically…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2013
Technology, globalization, the weakening of unions, all of this had shifted the basic bargain that had existed basically during the post-World War II era.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at an Organizing for Action Dinner

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