And the data are very, very clear that Republicans and conservatives have made inroads into all of our communities. Nobody wants to see themselves as poor. In the last recession, we had 56 million people who were poor based on the poverty indicators. such as the federal poverty level, but yet none of those people want to see themselves as poor. Now you started working on the Rise out of Poverty act or a variation of the day you got elected in 2005. (04:12–04:24)
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