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Joyce Beatty: “Nobody is suffering from unemployment like the African-American community.”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
Nobody is suffering from unemployment like the African-American community.
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Joyce Beatty
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Beatty highlights the severe unemployment crisis in the African-American community.

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