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Charles Rangel: How can we sit here and say that the cost of labor and the disparity that we have in income is going to make it possible…

On the recordOctober 6, 2015
How can we sit here and say that the cost of labor and the disparity that we have in income is going to make it possible for a guy with our salary, that you are concerned about your kids getting an education?
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York

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Rangel questions the feasibility of education access amid income disparities.

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