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On the recordOctober 7, 2015
That is part of Silicon Alley. I am so glad that you are familiar with our East Coast lingo. But it also has more college students in downtown Brooklyn than Boston and Cambridge combined. So there has been a great number of young people who have come to Brooklyn who are contributing to our fantastic innovation culture, but who are struggling with the fundamentals of today's economy and higher education structure that is working against them. That is why we are here on the floor of the House of Representatives fighting to change that.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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