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Rashida Tlaib: “How do you make a corporation not do the things that they do, primarily because they are looking only at numbers?”

On the recordMarch 6, 2019
How do you make a corporation not do the things that they do, primarily because they are looking only at numbers?
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib questions accountability measures for corporations prioritizing profits over people.

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