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Barack Obama: “The moral question about poverty in America - How can a country like this allow it? - has an easy answer: we can't.”

On the recordJuly 17, 2007
The moral question about poverty in America - How can a country like this allow it? - has an easy answer: we can't.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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