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Bill Lee: “Child poverty rates right now constitute for me a state of emergency.”

On the recordMay 5, 2020
Child poverty rates right now constitute for me a state of emergency.
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee

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Lee emphasizes the urgent crisis of child poverty and its complexities.

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