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On the recordJune 13, 2022
I think that the American Rescue Plan did a lot to push against the spike in hardship that we would have seen that would have disproportionately fallen on communities of color that have for centuries faced systemic racism.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Yarmuth discusses the impact of the American Rescue Plan on communities of color.

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