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The gap, not about the floor. >> well, i want to talk about the floor. in the united states when we look at poverty, yes, there's -- yes, poverty programs have worked for people. for seniors, we have all but eradicated, brought up the floor of poverty. if you look at the country, poverty has deep ened in the united states to historic terms. so not just the number of people living below poverty but the number of people living below half the poverty rate has grown. so the floor, in fact, has fallen for a lot of people. >> let me talk about the gap. i'll take on the middle. the 80% of americans i...
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