"Workers on the edge of poverty are essential……" — David K. Shipler
"Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed."
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David K. Shipler
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10 Quotes by David K. Shipler
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