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Tammy Baldwin: “We lost an engineering professor to another university that did offer domestic partnership benefits because of his…”

On the recordOctober 14, 2009
We lost an engineering professor to another university that did offer domestic partnership benefits because of his feeling that the lack of those policies was unjust.
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Tammy Baldwin
Democratic · Wisconsin

Editor's note · Context

Baldwin shares an anecdote about losing talent due to lack of domestic partnership benefits.

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