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Cory Booker: “Now that I go all around the state of New Jersey and one of…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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But how things have changed since I was playing football at Stanford, how things have changed since I first became mayor of the city of Newark, that Now that I go all around the state of New Jersey and one of the great pain points that parents tell me about is the increasing costs that just to get their children to play sports in grade school. It is stunning to me as parents face greater and greater pressures to buy gas or to pay for food or all the things that are going up. (13:45–13:57)

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Asserts that parents in New Jersey face increasing costs for their children to participate in grade school sports.

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