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Mike Levin: “This is Linda of Seattle, Washington: ``I am a person, a hardworking American person at that, and I will be forced to…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
This is Linda of Seattle, Washington: ``I am a person, a hardworking American person at that, and I will be forced to live on the streets if EUC is not extended. It terrifies me; and if it happens, the struggle I will face to once again be a productive member of this society, in these times, by myself, is not one that I'm likely to win. There are thousands of stories just like mine that won't be told here. We are people, we have faces and lives and dreams just like everyone who still has a job. I am telling you: we will be on the streets without this extension, and only some of us will ever make it back from that.''
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California
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Dec 7, 2011

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