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Donavan McKinney: “We haven't changed the poverty line and I don't know how…”

Featuring: Donavan McKinney, Michigan House of Representatives, District 11

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Published | Video Starts at 09:17

And so that's why we need people's support with the dollars to get us over the hump. But one of the things we can do with the help of support of Congress is trying to figure We haven't changed the poverty line and I don't know how long in decades. man. And so when we talk about how money is getting down to the least of these, like, it's not getting down to the poor of the poor because of how we define poverty in this country. (09:17–09:22)

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Asserts that the poverty line has not been changed in decades.

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