Saqib Bhatti and Stephen Lerner
Saqib Bhatti is the director of the ReFund America Project and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
Stephen Lerner is a fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. He is also the architect of Justice For Janitors campaign.
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