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Cory Booker: Today truck drivers are lucky though to make half of that.

On the recordJuly 28, 2014
Today truck drivers are lucky though to make half of that.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker highlights the decline in truck drivers' wages over the years.

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