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Eliot Engel: “18 percent of seniors in my home State of New York are living in poverty under the supplemental poverty measure and they…”

On the recordJune 25, 2013
18 percent of seniors in my home State of New York are living in poverty under the supplemental poverty measure and they just simply cannot afford to pay more.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel highlights the poverty rate among seniors in New York and their financial struggles.

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