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On the recordApril 5, 2016
For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal resources and where we come talk to Penny Pritzker, talk to anyone that I can, Maria Contreras-Sweet, about rural development and about making sure that we have communities who know where these programs are and how they can access them, because it is going to take more than what we are doing right now to tackle this problem of rural and persistent poverty in rural communities.
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Heidi Heitkamp
Democratic · North Dakota
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Heitkamp discusses the importance of federal resources in combating rural poverty.

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