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Working Class Issues and the 2024 Election

Nov 22, 2024

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Mary Anne Trasciatti

Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University’s director of the Labor Studies Program and professor of rhetoric, was interviewed on the WBAI radio program, “What’s Going On! Moral Monday,” on the importance of labor issues in the 2024 election.



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