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Ayanna Pressley: “We have lost three daily tables that were critical in…”

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

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Senator Markey Hosts Press Conference at Project Bread In Boston with Rep. Pressley to Protect SNAP

Published | Video Starts at 15:29

And I just want to remind folks, because I represent the Massachusetts seventh, we have some of the most disparate outcomes, including and especially around health, from Cambridge to roxbury, difference of 30 year life expectancy. And we are a food desert. And We have lost three daily tables that were critical in closing that gap. We lost one in Cambridge, one in Roxbury, one in Mattapan, and I've lost two hospitals. So this is a health care crisis. Trump and his Republican co conspirators would rather fill their own pockets than fill the stomachs of hungry children. (15:29–15:40)

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