07/16/2019
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"As of this past January, the unemployment rate in Rhode Island stood at an unacceptable high 10.9 percent."
"The budget is a powerful indication of our priorities as a nation."
"Let me be clear, we do not have to abandon Americans in poverty or fail to invest in working class families to reduce our deficits and pay down our debts."
"We cannot reduce our deficits simply by cutting food for hungry children or stripping our schools of computers and new books."