02/07/2023
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"This legislation that I am putting forward along with my colleagues is literally just to recognize poverty in America."
"The idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it is a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap."
"We are not doing enough by our own people in a democracy that is supposed to be by the people and for the people."
"the official poverty measure is largely based on 1950's, family arrangements, and spending patterns"