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Bill Clinton: “Good economics was good social policy, that you could be fiscally responsible and reduce poverty.”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2001
Good economics was good social policy, that you could be fiscally responsible and reduce poverty.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the United States Conference of Mayors

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