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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Denison
Texas
James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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Slaves
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