Bill Clinton: “We have to grow the middle class and shrink the under class.”

On the recordJune 5, 1995

We have to grow the middle class and shrink the under class.

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Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks to the National Governors' Association Summit on Young Children in Baltimore, Maryland

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