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On the recordMarch 3, 2021
We have allowed a system to take root that treats American workers as a commodity, a cost to be minimized--instead of the engine behind all our businesses' success.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes the treatment of workers in the economy.

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