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Michael Bennet: “I don't know what that is except a recipe for cementing income inequality in this country rather than relieving it.”

On the recordJune 2, 2015
I don't know what that is except a recipe for cementing income inequality in this country rather than relieving it.
Said by
Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Bennet highlights the disparity in college costs between income quartiles.

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