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Peter Welch: “Rural America is on the ropes. Commodity prices are down, whether it is in coal country or it is dairy country.”

On the recordMarch 20, 2017
Rural America is on the ropes. Commodity prices are down, whether it is in coal country or it is dairy country.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch highlights the economic struggles facing rural America.

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