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Kim Schrier: How is it fair for folks in Massachusetts to make 200 percent of poverty and folks from Texas make only 160?

On the recordJune 19, 2019
How is it fair for folks in Massachusetts to make 200 percent of poverty and folks from Texas make only 160?
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Kim Schrier
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

Questions the fairness of poverty thresholds across states.

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