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If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

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Harry Reid
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: December 2
City Attorney
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United States Senator
Searchlight
Nevada
Harry Mason Reid
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