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Ed Markey: Do you know there are still 600,000 construction workers that haven't been working since the great recession?

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
Do you know there are still 600,000 construction workers that haven't been working since the great recession?
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights the ongoing unemployment crisis among construction workers.

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