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Josh Hawley: “The industry used to employ, I would say, 3 million workers in the 1990s, and now we are about 600,000 workers.”

On the recordApril 13, 2021
The industry used to employ, I would say, 3 million workers in the 1990s, and now we are about 600,000 workers.
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Josh Hawley
Republican · Missouri

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Hawley notes the drastic decline in employment in the textile industry.

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