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Jamie Raskin: “Do we really want to create a financial incentive for them to go to work and spread whatever it is they have?”

On the recordJune 23, 2021
Do we really want to create a financial incentive for them to go to work and spread whatever it is they have?
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin questions the implications of sick workers being incentivized to work.

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