05/18/2009
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"trickle-down economics is not working for working people, and especially for lower-wage working people"
"COVID is laying bare the inequities. It is not creating the inequity, but it is showing us what it is."
"It is immoral and disgraceful. In Minnesota, a 2016 analysis showed that black Minnesotans are twice as likely as Minnesotans as a whole to live within 2½ miles of a payday loan store."
"I think that we are touching on the trauma and the devastation, really, that so many Americans have experienced due to this pandemic."