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Kent Conrad: The top 1 percent earns over $337,000. That costs $45 billion. But he does not have the money, he says, to fund No Child…

On the recordMarch 8, 2004
The top 1 percent earns over $337,000. That costs $45 billion. But he does not have the money, he says, to fund No Child Left Behind.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing funding issues related to the No Child Left Behind Act.

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