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Newt Gingrich: Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So…

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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