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Elizabeth Warren: “The unemployment rate already for black Americans is twice that of white Americans.”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2017
The unemployment rate already for black Americans is twice that of white Americans.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren points out the existing employment gap between black and white Americans.

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