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Bill Delahunt: If those that went before us had not prevailed, would there be a middle class in America today?

On the recordMarch 3, 1998
If those that went before us had not prevailed, would there be a middle class in America today?
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the historical impact on the American middle class.

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