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Heidi Heitkamp: “We absolutely need to understand why people are in poverty----without judgment, and that is a critical piece for me.”

On the recordJanuary 11, 2017
We absolutely need to understand why people are in poverty----without judgment, and that is a critical piece for me.
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Heidi Heitkamp
Democratic · North Dakota

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Heitkamp emphasizes the importance of understanding poverty without judgment.

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