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Jason Rojas: “What policy has done for the last 40 and 50 years is…”

Featuring: Jason Rojas, Democratic | Connecticut House of Representatives, 9th Assembly District

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Connecticut State Representative Jason Rojas Discusses Housing, Democracy, and Women's Rights

Published | Video Starts at 04:16

Is you not taking me out of my neighborhood or where I choose or blocking me to choose. So I love this. Large people don't have a choice. Yes. Right. So many of us. And What policy has done for the last 40 and 50 years is actually concentrate poverty and concentrate lack of opportunity in just a certain number, a handful of towns around the state of Connecticut. And we need to rebuild and reinvest in those communities. But we also need to provide people choice. (04:16–04:28)

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Asserts that policy has concentrated poverty and lack of opportunity in certain Connecticut towns.

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