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Gregory Meeks: And the fact of the matter is, those people who lost their homes and jobs, et cetera, they were not just minorities…

On the recordApril 4, 2017
And the fact of the matter is, those people who lost their homes and jobs, et cetera, they were not just minorities; they were not just people from urban America; they were not people just from rural America; they were not people just from the east, the west, the north or the south; they were all Americans.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Meeks emphasizes that the financial crisis affected all Americans, regardless of background.

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