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Pete Ricketts: It is just not my experience in the real world, the practical world, that being a right-to-work state is a disadvantage.

On the recordJune 2, 2015
It is just not my experience in the real world, the practical world, that being a right-to-work state is a disadvantage.
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Pete Ricketts
Nebraska

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Ricketts defends right-to-work states as beneficial for economic growth.

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