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John James: “It didn't take a year or two or three or ten for the adults…”

Featuring: John James, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 10

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Rep. John James | The Sage Steele Show

Published | Video Starts at 47:41

Everybody wants to talk about not letting a zip code determine your future, but that's exactly what Democrats are doing. Focus on education. Michigan is in the bottom of the bottom of educational attainment. Like I mentioned, It didn't take a year or two or three or ten for the adults in Detroit to be statistically, in a majority, illiterate. That took decades. That took decades of failure. And so looking at education, looking at our education system and fixing it, that's among my very top priorities. (47:41–47:52)

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Asserts that it took decades for a majority of adults in Detroit to become statistically illiterate.

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