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Ayanna Pressley: “I think it has everything to do with divestment, under-investment, policy violence.”

On the recordJuly 20, 2021
I think it has everything to do with divestment, under-investment, policy violence.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Pressley asserts that systemic issues are due to deliberate policy choices.

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