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Barack Obama: “We've set a goal of lifting 50 million people from poverty within a decade, which is ambitious, but achievable.”

On the recordJune 27, 2013
We've set a goal of lifting 50 million people from poverty within a decade, which is ambitious, but achievable.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Following a Tour of the Food Security Expo in Dakar

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