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On the recordSeptember 30, 2020
It is not my intention, nor has it ever been, to engage in any kind of false dichotomy between poor people who reside in West Virginia and poor people who reside on the south side of Chicago.
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Bobby Rush
Democratic · Illinois

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Rejecting the notion of competing poverty narratives between regions.

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