these facts are critically important to understanding the big picture of how your budget and policy decisions directly impact the health and well-being of communities in my district in Brooklyn and in districts like mine across the country.
Clarke emphasizes the importance of budget impacts on community health.
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As someone who has called Brooklyn home for decades, I know firsthand the challenges that communities like East Flatbush have faced because of years of disinvestment, a shortage of affordable housing, and longstanding health disparities.
This is not politics as usual. This is a defining moral moment for our country.
Corporations that have profited from Black consumers, relied on Black workers, and amassed wealth in part from Black communities cannot look away while Black political power is dismantled in plain sight.
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