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Apr 2022
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Tom Perez: What Excites Me is the Job Ma...

WHARTON BUSINESS DAILY
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Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez talks to Dan Loney about the latest jobs report, why we're on pace to recover much faster than we did after the Great Recession, and why workers have all of the leverage.

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