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Ayanna Pressley: “Children that are unhoused...it quite literally changes…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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Horizons for Homeless Children Visit with Congresswomen Pressley and Ocasio-Cortez

Published | Video Starts at 16:46

Their life path. So again, this is our most important infrastructure is to support our babies. And as was being shared with us earlier, we know that our Children that are unhoused...it quite literally changes their brain, you know, how they cognitively function. how they receive knowledge, how they are. So they're in need of holistic support. I mean, we say that it takes a village to raise a child, that's true. (16:46–17:01)

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Asserts that homelessness affects children's cognitive development.

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