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Deborah Koff Ross: we had 397,000 factories in this country at the beginning of the last decade. We only have 343,000 now.

On the recordJune 16, 2011
we had 397,000 factories in this country at the beginning of the last decade. We only have 343,000 now.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

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Pointing out the significant loss of factories over the decade.

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