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On the recordJune 15, 2021
Do you agree that... the poverty rate during that period was the lowest it has been in the history of our country since we began keeping track back in the 1950s?
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Portman questions Secretary Yellen about the historical low poverty rate linked to tax reforms.

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