I doubt very much, Madam President, that there is a living American who can remember a decade in this country we took it for granted that Teachers would have to go to a food bank to feed their own children. Can you imagine in the 1950s in this chamber, if it were known that people teaching in America, in inner city America or in the suburbs of our great cities, that the pay wasn't satisfactory so they had to go to a food bank afterwards. (02:21–02:26)
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Asserts that teachers are relying on food banks due to insufficient pay.
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