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In reply to the discussion: Guess who is the largest employer of underpaid workers in America? [View all]kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)especially good paying jobs for women and minorities. /the work had to be done so they contracted out a lot of Fed work to contractor cronies of the /RW. It's the private sector contractors that pay the low wages and little benefits...exactly what the GOP has wanted ever since Reagan was in office and the Grace Co took over a huge hunk of government jobs as career gov't workers either retired or took the low=paying jobs being offered by the contractors or found other work., It's called "contracting out." All this because the GOP hated the fact that the government was the largest honoree of Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity for women and minorities (think blacks here). Can't have those undeserving folks have good paying, meaningful jobs. That ruins things for the wealthy ...