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On the recordMay 11, 2011
If that is the choice we have to make, and the middle class and working class of this country has to make, in order to get more jobs you have to have lower wages, then we are all really in trouble, greater trouble than we have been over the last 30 years.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken warns against sacrificing wages for job creation.

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