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Economic Policy Institute's 'State of Working America'

NPR

Published September 8, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Tony Cox speaks with economist Sylvia Allegretto of the Economic Policy Institute about the institute's recently published report, The State of Working America.

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