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Squandering The Blue-Collar Advantage

		Updated On: Sep 29, 2009

Read why almost everything except unions and the blue-collar workforce are hurting American manufacturing. Click the link below for the Briefing Paper by The Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens.

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