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Barack Obama: “We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and…”

On the recordJune 4, 2007
We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and also by asking for some more individual responsibility to strengthen our families.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama proposing a dual approach to reducing poverty through societal and individual responsibility.

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