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Summer Lee: Quickly, can I--if we go into a moment in time of quarantine, closing schools, restaurants, et cetera, do you think we…

On the recordMarch 3, 2020
Quickly, can I--if we go into a moment in time of quarantine, closing schools, restaurants, et cetera, do you think we should also be concerned about, in this instance, hourly wages--hourly wage workers who would be caught up in that quarantine who don't get paid, and may have a devastating impact on the family?
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Concern about the impact of quarantine on hourly wage workers.

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