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Gregory Meeks: For example, if you look at my district, and Black and minority communities, they overwhelmingly lost wealth, lost jobs…

On the recordDecember 4, 2019
For example, if you look at my district, and Black and minority communities, they overwhelmingly lost wealth, lost jobs, and were foreclosed upon at disproportionately high rates, and many of them haven't fully recovered yet.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks highlights the disproportionate impact of financial crises on minority communities.

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