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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “If we are looking at ideals and what we think is the actual investment that can create tens of millions good union jobs…”

On the recordApril 9, 2021
If we are looking at ideals and what we think is the actual investment that can create tens of millions good union jobs in this country can shore up our health care, our infrastructure, our housing and doing it in a way that draws down our carbon emissions, to help us get in line with the IPCC standards, we are talking about realistically $10 trillion over ten years.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Ocasio-Cortez argues for a significantly larger investment in infrastructure than President Biden's proposal.

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