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A Summit at UIC Aims to Make Progress on Poverty

Clip: 02/20/2020 | 11m 6s  | Video has closed captioning.

Poverty was front and center at a summit Thursday at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where local policymakers, union leaders, employers and academics focused on how to end poverty in Chicago within a generation.

Aired: 02/20/20

Rating: NR

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