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Bill Foster: “Even before the COVID crisis, we found that workers, particularly unskilled workers, were having a harder and harder…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2020
Even before the COVID crisis, we found that workers, particularly unskilled workers, were having a harder and harder time competing with machines for their jobs.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster discusses the challenges unskilled workers face against automation.

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