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Ayanna Pressley: “Do Ms. Norcross and her family deserve to live in these conditions because they are poor?”

On the recordMay 20, 2019
Do Ms. Norcross and her family deserve to live in these conditions because they are poor?
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Pressley questions the morality of allowing poor families to live in substandard housing.

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