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Ayanna Pressley

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Ayanna Soyini Pressley is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2019. She made history as the first African American woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Pressley is known for her progressive stances on issues such as criminal justice reform, healthcare, and immigration policy.

May 21, 2019

Last week, San Francisco became the first city to ban use of facial recognition technology.

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May 21, 2019

I do believe the Federal agencies should not use this technology without legislative authorization.

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May 21, 2019

So right now, the way I look at AI is we see this growing coded gaze that is mainly pale, mainly male, and doesn't represent the majority of society.

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May 21, 2019

The rule to revoke a school's access to Federal Student Aid if the typical debt-to-earnings ratio of graduates exceeded a certain threshold.

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May 21, 2019

Respectfully, there is no answer that you could provide me that would be sufficient when you have processed 33 claims in four years, and we're talking about thousands of lives which have been irreparably damaged.

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May 21, 2019

I held one of the first hearings in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the deceptive practices of for-profit colleges.

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May 21, 2019

Black and Latino students make up less than 30 percent of all students, yet they comprise almost half of all students at for-profit colleges.

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May 21, 2019

This industry raked in record profits at the expense of the hopes and dreams of many of our most vulnerable communities.

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May 21, 2019

98 percent of the programs that failed were at for-profit colleges.

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May 21, 2019

the Department, it seems, has really abused this agreement.

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May 21, 2019

In 2014, the Obama Administration proposed the gainful employment rule. This was proposed as an accountability standard for all career-focused nondegree programs.

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