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Cory Booker: “We are cutting poverty in America and making work pay.”

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

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Cory Booker GOES OFF on Trump and Democrats' Tax Plan

Published | Video Starts at 59:45

So if, even if you're somebody that has part time earnings, you are going to benefit now from the CT, from the eitc. So trust me, we designed this so that We are cutting poverty in America and making work pay. And why is that person, that working class person who makes a nurse and a cop who make $100,000 a year, why do we say they're making too much money? (59:45–59:49)

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Asserts that the proposed tax credit expansions will reduce poverty and increase the value of work.

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