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Pat Toomey: “It seems to me, in fact, that access to credit is a necessary precondition for poor people to move up to the middle…”

On the recordMay 25, 2021
It seems to me, in fact, that access to credit is a necessary precondition for poor people to move up to the middle class, not the other way around.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey emphasizes the importance of credit access for economic mobility.

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