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Robert C. Byrd: “The jobs that are being created are not the jobs that are higher paying, the jobs in the smokestack industries, the jobs…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 1987
The jobs that are being created are not the jobs that are higher paying, the jobs in the smokestack industries, the jobs in the strong manufacturing and industrial base of this country, but they are service jobs.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Sep 10, 1987

Editor's note · Context

Responding to administration claims about the strength of the domestic economy.

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