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On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
And perhaps the bigger failure is not living up to President Johnson's goal, "not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it."
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Mike Capuano
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Capuano reflects on HUD's role in addressing poverty.

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