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On the recordFebruary 16, 2000
what is really alarming to me is when I look at the tremendous shortage of nurses. I mean, we can go to almost any hospital and there is a need for nurses, yet there appear to be not the numbers of individuals especially coming from the African American community and especially that part of the African American community that I am very much familiar with.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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Addressing the shortage of nurses, particularly from the African American community.

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