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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
If you talk to any economist about what stimulates the economy, it isn't the tax cuts for the richest 2 percent...
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

DeLauro argues that education funding is a better economic stimulus than tax cuts for the wealthy.

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