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Stacey Plaskett: “What do we do in the instances where we have a district or an area that has a 31 percent child poverty rate?”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
What do we do in the instances where we have a district or an area that has a 31 percent child poverty rate?
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands

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Plaskett questions how to address high child poverty and unemployment.

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