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On the recordDecember 4, 2011
Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have -- they have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of I do this and you give me cash. Unless it's illegal.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Newt Gingrich discusses the lack of work habits among poor children in neighborhoods.

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