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Bill Clinton: We have to work economically to expand the middle class and to shrink the under class.

On the recordMarch 22, 1995
We have to work economically to expand the middle class and to shrink the under class.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the College Press Forum

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