“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordDecember 9, 2013
I was in the state legislature. We were often sold the lottery and other kinds of gambling revenue as helping our schools and in Illinois supposedly for education.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois
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Editor's note · Context

Schakowsky reflects on the misleading promises of gambling revenue for education.

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