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Shannon Grow-Garrett

active 2 years, 1 month ago

Shannon Grow-Garrett commented on the blog post Our Turn (2 years ago)

I really liked the part about turning the screws on Congress and we need to turn the screws on Business esp the US Chamber of Commerce. Its time to rethink this economic madhouse that rewards bad behavior not good.
Shannon Grow-Garrett wrote on Job Outsourced to India’s wire: (2 years, 1 month ago)

Hello to all.First I shall introduce myself.My husband and I both unemployed and have been for a year.My husband is a machinist and I am pretty much unskilled for some inexplicable reason.We are both 54 so we fall into the ”older worker” category but are just as concerned for younger workers, its about all of [...]
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