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Tim Walz: “We reduced our childhood poverty rates.”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Tim Walz on his Fraud Response, Operation Metro Surge & Not Running for a 3rd Term | On the Record

Published | Video Starts at 03:57

But I understand on the accountability, and I think it's really important now is that I, I will be able to say when I leave office that Minnesota's programs are more secure than any other state. And that's … We reduced our childhood poverty rates. … talk about the systems and it comes to fraud, it's obviously there were system failures with the fraud, but the people, the commissioners running these agencies, why didn't you have more firings, more terminations in those early days? (03:57–04:07)

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Asserts that childhood poverty rates have been reduced.

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