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On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
The United States is now the only industrialized Nation in the world where a kid has a lesser chance of graduating from high school than their parents did.
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina

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Senator Burr highlights declining high school graduation rates in the U.S.

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