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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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