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Ron Wyden: “If working families fall further behind now, fewer will be able to climb America's ladder of economic mobility.”

On the recordMarch 12, 2014
If working families fall further behind now, fewer will be able to climb America's ladder of economic mobility.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden warns about the consequences of economic decline on family mobility.

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