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Wes Moore: “My mother didn't get her first job that gave her benefits…”

Featuring: Wes Moore, Democratic | Governor of Maryland

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Published | Video Starts at 33:03

So it's just I consider the source on all this and I consider the motivations, and I do think it's part of a bigger, bigger point. What's that? My mother didn't get her first job that gave her benefits until I was 14 years old. that I joined the army when I was 17, that I graduated from a two year college and I still went on to become a Rhodes Scholar. (33:03–33:08)

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Asserts that Wes Moore's mother did not have a job with benefits until he was 14.

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