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Sherrod Brown: “If you are a huge corporation under our proposal and you choose to pay your workers so little that they are…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2017
If you are a huge corporation under our proposal and you choose to pay your workers so little that they are disproportionately forced onto government assistance, you need to reimburse American taxpayers.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Brown highlights the burden on taxpayers from low corporate wages.

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