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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 into the middle class.
And, personally, I hope we startby listening to the majority of the American people and restoring theunemployment insurance for Americans who need a little help supporting theirfamilies while they look for a new job. And I’m glad the Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are workingtogether to extend that lifeline. I hopetheir colleagues in the House will join them to set this right.
Today I want to talk aboutsomething very particular, a specific example of how we can make adifference. We are here with leaders whoare determined to change the odds in their munities the way these kids andtheir parents and dedicated citizens have changed the odds in Harlem. It’s now been 50 years since PresidentJohnson declared an unconditional War on Poverty in America. And that groundbreaking effort created newavenues of opportunity for generations of Americans. It strengthened our safety net for workingfamilies and seniors, Americans with disabilities and the poor, so that when wefall and you never know what life brings you we can bounce backfaster. It made us a better country anda stronger country.
In a speech 50 years ago,President Johnson talked about munities “on the outskirts ofhope where opportunitywas hard to e by.” Well, today’seconomic challenges are differentbut they’ve still resulted in munitieswhere in recent decades wrenching economic changehas made opportunity harderand harder to e by. There aremunities where for toomany young people it feels like their future onlyextends to the next street corner or theoutskirts of town, too manymunities where no matter how hard you work, your destinyfeels like it’salready been determined for you before you took that first step.
I’m not just talking aboutpockets of poverty in our inner cities. That’s the ’mtalking about suburban neighborhoods that have been hammered by the housingcrisis. I’mtalking about manufacturingtowns that still haven’t recovered after the local plant shut downand jobsdried up. There are islands of ruralAmerica where jobs are scarce they were scarceeven before the recession hit so that young people feel like if they want to actually succeed,they’ve gotto leave town, they’ve got to leave their munities.
And I’ve seen this personallyeven before I got into politics. Infact, this is what drove meinto politics. I was just two years out of college whe
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