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Maxine Waters: “But why don't you take the Moving to Work programs now and start demanding the information, come up with some standards…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2015
But why don't you take the Moving to Work programs now and start demanding the information, come up with some standards, so that you could get some credible information, instead of expanding on Moving to Work that has not proven or shown what they can do?
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters questions the effectiveness and accountability of the Moving to Work programs.

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