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On the recordMay 5, 2020
If you look at the discrepancies between two-parent families and single-parent families... the poverty rate is 22 percent with--child poverty rate, 22 percent in two-parent family, 9 percent in single-parent families.
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James Harris
Republican · Maryland

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Harris discusses the stark differences in poverty rates between family structures.

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