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Pelosi Joins Hundreds at Anti-Poverty Rally in California

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“House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a group of about 200 people at a rally in Los Angeles on Sunday, calling for continued federal funding to help combat poverty in the U.S.

Organizers of the #EndChildPoverty rally, which was held outside of a community center in South Los Angeles, said California has the highest rate of child poverty nationwide. They said they believe that federal funding to help combat the issue is under attack.

Rep. Barbara Lee, a Democrat from California, called it a ‘moral outrage that in the richest nation on earth, so many of our children are still living in poverty.'”

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