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On the recordJune 3, 2019
Now you have fired a quarter-million people, and now it is teachers and their pension funds that are on the hook for paying for that even though they had nothing to do with it?
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

She questions accountability for job losses affecting pension funds.

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