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On the recordMay 17, 2017
The real lesson for today's hearing is not that middle class Federal workers are making too much. It is that private sector workers, especially those with the lowest incomes and educations are making too little.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin emphasizes that federal workers are not overpaid compared to struggling private sector workers.

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