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Gary Peters: We took our eye off the ball as a country on manufacturing; we thought we could, in search of cheap labor, outsource…

On the recordMay 16, 2023
We took our eye off the ball as a country on manufacturing; we thought we could, in search of cheap labor, outsource everything.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters discusses the U.S. manufacturing decline and its national security implications.

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