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John Salazar: “Many of those have lost population and even in the good times of the 1990s, while the big cities were thriving and…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
Many of those have lost population and even in the good times of the 1990s, while the big cities were thriving and people were making a lot of money, the people in rural America were being forgotten.
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John Salazar
Colorado

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Salazar discusses the neglect of rural America during economic booms.

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