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Sherrod Brown: “Instead of lowering demand--which is just economics textbook jargon for making people poorer, laying off workers…”

On the recordJune 21, 2023
Instead of lowering demand--which is just economics textbook jargon for making people poorer, laying off workers, denying raises--we can produce more, we can build more, and we can grow the economy from the middle out.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Advocating for increasing production to support economic growth.

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