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Gary Peters: “Currency manipulation has cost millions of jobs in the United States and many of those jobs were in my home State of…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
Currency manipulation has cost millions of jobs in the United States and many of those jobs were in my home State of Michigan.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters highlights the impact of currency manipulation on U.S. jobs, especially in Michigan.

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