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Tim Scott: “I think perhaps when we evaluate the labor participation rate and how it has gone from 65 percent to 62 ...”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2015
I think perhaps when we evaluate the labor participation rate and how it has gone from 65 percent to 62 ...
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Scott discusses the impact of declining labor participation on revenue and the economy.

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