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Monday Mini: The Severe Pay Gap for Indigenous Women · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is any and Samantha, I do welcome to stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've never told your production. I heart radio. All right, Annie,
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  Speaker 1: I know you and I talked a little bit about this,
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  Speaker 1: and I have to ask, did I ever send you
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  Speaker 1: or did you see the TikTok video apparently of kind
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  Speaker 1: of like an infomercial that happened in Germany. Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: have not seen it. You told me about it briefly.
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  Speaker 1: It so TikTok user named Teresa Marco actually found this
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  Speaker 1: ad and posted it up and was like what is this?
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  Speaker 1: Essentially it was like huh and it is a TV
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  Speaker 1: ad that went through in Germany in twenty I think, um.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a picture of a little girl on the
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  Speaker 1: port steps with a little Teddy bear and the German
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  Speaker 1: narrator warns about the access the lack of access to
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  Speaker 1: nutritious foods in the US and how costly all of
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  Speaker 1: these problematic things that could happen for health it was
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  Speaker 1: for the government, and how Germany needs to help and
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  Speaker 1: rise like what is happening? What is happening? And apparently
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  Speaker 1: it was a satirical video from a campaign called Share
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  Speaker 1: Our Strength and it was not actually to raise money,
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  Speaker 1: but it was more of to raise awareness of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that America has a huge issue with food scarcity
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  Speaker 1: and how though it I guess from the outside, everybody
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  Speaker 1: pretends like the US is okay, and though we've been
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  Speaker 1: louder and louder, and I say, we a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us who have seen some of the things that are
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  Speaker 1: happening in the background, and how the wage gap, the
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  Speaker 1: economic gap is so vast that, yeah, there is a
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  Speaker 1: growing number of those who are having a lack of
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  Speaker 1: food as if we are a third world country. So
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  Speaker 1: I found it fascinating. I needed to tell you, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess the listeners and if you all have more information,
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  Speaker 1: this was a little tidbit that I've gotten about this
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  Speaker 1: campaign in general. Um, we would love to hear from y'all.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought that was really fascinating, and also I
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  Speaker 1: wanted you to react. I'm gonna have to send you
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  Speaker 1: this video anyway soon, but I wanted uh to kind
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  Speaker 1: of have a discussion about this kind of And again,
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  Speaker 1: this was five years ago, so it's not recent, but
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  Speaker 1: this kind of information being out there, and how honestly
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of spot on, right, Yeah, And I know
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  Speaker 1: that I've seen pieces like that over the year, some
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  Speaker 1: of them satiring, some of them not satire. But it
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  Speaker 1: is always like they always go for the shock factor
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  Speaker 1: because most people do think like, oh, I mean and
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  Speaker 1: you know, most people being the people who are fortunate
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  Speaker 1: enough to not have to deal with us or don't
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  Speaker 1: see it for whatever reason, but they always go for
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  Speaker 1: that shock fight trips like this is in your backyards
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  Speaker 1: the United States. And honestly, this leads to the reason
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  Speaker 1: we're doing today's Monday Mini uh and just to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and put a time stamp. Today is November of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twenty one, and we want to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the pay gap, but we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk specifically how that has impacted the Indigenous community. And
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  Speaker 1: we've had past episodes talking about the devastating pay gap
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to gender, race, and overall economic status.
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  Speaker 1: But again, we wanted to do a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a deeper look at what is happening with the gender
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  Speaker 1: pay gap when it comes to Native and Indigenous women,
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  Speaker 1: and y'all, it's been talked about, it's been a thing
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  Speaker 1: that's been around. I've seen articles that went dated back
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  Speaker 1: to two thousand two, two thousand, fifteen thousand, sixteen, two thousand, nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and these numbers are not surprising, but it again is
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  Speaker 1: something we will want to think about, and we think
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  Speaker 1: it's important to recognize and talk about more often. To
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  Speaker 1: once against shedow light about is not It's not a
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  Speaker 1: small thing. And though women are have been overall impacted,
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  Speaker 1: some other communities have been impacted even more so before
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic. And Native and Indigenous women in the US
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  Speaker 1: we're already making significantly less than anyone else. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, the research showed that Native women were
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  Speaker 1: making fifty nine point seven cents for every dollar a
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  Speaker 1: white man makes. That's a forty three difference, but the
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  Speaker 1: gap can be as large as fifty three point five
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  Speaker 1: across the different Native communities. It would take an additional
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  Speaker 1: nine months for Native women to earn as much as
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  Speaker 1: their white male colleagues, and that would be for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty alone, right, And the numbers haven't gotten any better
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  Speaker 1: in the last two years. From what we know. During
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, Native women have continued to be on the
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  Speaker 1: front line as essential workers. Um that three out of
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  Speaker 1: ten Native women were working on as essential workers at
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  Speaker 1: this point in time, and yes, most of These jobs
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  Speaker 1: are typically the high stress, critically important positions, but are
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  Speaker 1: often most likely the lower paying jobs, such as being
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  Speaker 1: in healthcare or administrative services. Right and when we look
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  Speaker 1: at the overall risk for the health of these workers,
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  Speaker 1: many times we see even less healthcare coverage or any
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  Speaker 1: real assistance financially, emotionally, are physically and for the families
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  Speaker 1: of these Native women, they provide at least of the
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  Speaker 1: family's financial support. According to a recent report from the
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  Speaker 1: National Women's Law Center, in twenty nineteen, quote, nearly eighteen
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  Speaker 1: percent of Native American women and twenty one percent of
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  Speaker 1: Native American children lived in poverty, and not surprisingly, the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic has increased the hardships extensively due to continue to
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  Speaker 1: do as sub jobs and overall unstable economy, and within
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  Speaker 1: these numbers, at least twenty one five of Native women
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  Speaker 1: aged sixty five and older will likely be pushed into
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  Speaker 1: poverty as well. And to add to the continued stress,
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  Speaker 1: many of the Native communities have been hit harder and
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  Speaker 1: hardest by the pandemic. The virus has spread quote among
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  Speaker 1: Native Americans at a rate of three point five times
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  Speaker 1: the rate of white non Hispanic people, and again had
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  Speaker 1: an overall higher risk of having serious complications before COVID,
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  Speaker 1: so most likely will be at a high risk of
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  Speaker 1: being hospitalized or death. Yeah, and there's so much we
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  Speaker 1: need to do and change for this continued mishandling and
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  Speaker 1: unequal system of wealth. And one of these things include
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  Speaker 1: getting exact numbers and data to transparently see what is
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  Speaker 1: happening and why we're leaving so many communities behind defend
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  Speaker 1: for themselves in a losing situation. According to NWLC, these
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  Speaker 1: A research economic data for Native American women are very
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  Speaker 1: limited and makes it difficult to see the whole picture
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to unemployment rates and overall job statistics.
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  Speaker 1: So we've talked about this many times and we'll continue
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it. And I want to credit the
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  Speaker 1: Native workers who have been getting this information as we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten it. But the fact that we need a spotlight
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  Speaker 1: and give more money and get more research and get
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  Speaker 1: a lot more understanding about what is happening in Native
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  Speaker 1: communities and how they have been so harshly impacted by
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  Speaker 1: this gender pay gap which affects this community even more
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  Speaker 1: so than others. And I know we've harped on it
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but until we can find to make equity happen.
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  Speaker 1: No one is gonna be okay, it's gonna harm everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put that out there. And and though
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  Speaker 1: again we've hit some giant snags when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the Equal Pay Act as well as a Paycheck Fairness Act,
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  Speaker 1: which by the way, field in Congress earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: there is some positives coming out and including the fact
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  Speaker 1: the Native American communities make up one of the highest
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  Speaker 1: rated vaccinated communities in the US. They're not playing, they know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so glad to hear that because I'm concerned
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  Speaker 1: for other communities, just saying I'm gonna ruled Georgia here.
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  Speaker 1: And with the recent passing of the Infrastructure Bill, we
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  Speaker 1: should see more assistance for the Native communities and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: we'll be able to see some change because they have
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  Speaker 1: been allotted I think, uh several billion, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's like one point five billion in that bill
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  Speaker 1: to help their communities through several different things. And again,
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  Speaker 1: as we've talked about before, seeing representation within Congress makes
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  Speaker 1: a giant difference, including the fact that Secretary that Holland
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  Speaker 1: is there and stepping up and Representative Shrys Davis, who
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  Speaker 1: has been there for a minute, could continue to work
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  Speaker 1: to being a voice for those communities and seeking to
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  Speaker 1: make change in all of these complicated situations, which doesn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily have to be this complicated, but you know, um, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we are seeing some change and let's cross our fingers
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  Speaker 1: as this bill has come into being signed recently and
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  Speaker 1: maybe that that will make an impact. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: do want to do a breakdown of this bill because
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  Speaker 1: as good as it is, there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that makes you raise your eyebrow and and we know
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  Speaker 1: the amount of negotiations that it had to take to
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  Speaker 1: even get here and means a loss of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other good things that would have been beneficial for
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  Speaker 1: this country. But what as so, let's hope, let's hope
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  Speaker 1: that this let's make a giant change. Yes, yes, and
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  Speaker 1: that's definitely something um we will come back and discuss
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  Speaker 1: as something we want to keep in an eye on.
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