Bill Clinton: “We cannot grow the American economy in the 21st century if we continue…”

On the recordJuly 18, 1995

We cannot grow the American economy in the 21st century if we continue to have pockets of abject poverty where people are dying to go to work.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Teleconference Remarks and Question-and-Answer Session With the National Council of La Raza

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