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Rashida Tlaib: “If you want to look at the economy, how the cost to the economy is when we do nothing, and, really, the human cost, to…”

On the recordJune 15, 2021
If you want to look at the economy, how the cost to the economy is when we do nothing, and, really, the human cost, to me, is something that we can't look away...
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

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Tlaib discusses the economic and human costs of inaction on climate change.

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