It is tragic because of the tremendous human cost of our delays and failure to enact this bill. Since 1980. more than 400.000 jobs have been lost in the textile and apparel industry and more than 70.000 have been lost in footwear. Many. if not most. of those jobs were filled by women and minorities. including immigrants. trying to break into our economy. Those people badly needed those jobs. and it is precisely that segment of our population that is in the greatest need of our attention. Too often when we debate these economic issues we deal with them in abstract policy terms and forget that the lives and livelihoods of real people are involved.
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