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Kay Hagan: “Nearly one in five American children live in poverty and that by the year 2012, it will be one in four, the highest rate…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2010
Nearly one in five American children live in poverty and that by the year 2012, it will be one in four, the highest rate since the 1960s.
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Kay Hagan
Democratic · North Carolina

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Hagan warns about rising child poverty rates in America.

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