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Gregory Meeks: Deductions like that, will cause the working poor not to be able to move.

On the recordJune 26, 2018
Deductions like that, will cause the working poor not to be able to move.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Meeks argues that eliminating deductions will harm the working poor in public housing.

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