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Mike Conaway: “I hope our team collectively can focus on the bottom two quintiles, because those are the folks who have the least…”

On the recordApril 13, 2016
I hope our team collectively can focus on the bottom two quintiles, because those are the folks who have the least flexibility to be able to adjust to price changes.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Conaway emphasizes the need to prioritize policies for lower-income households affected by food prices.

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