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On the recordJune 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled many of these deeply entrenched inequities, and we're witnessing firsthand the deadly consequences in real time.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley discusses how the pandemic has highlighted existing social and economic inequities.

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