State Senator Harris: Poverty rates high in nation’s wealthiest state

State Senator Jonathan Harris (D-Conn.) talks about the increasing poverty problem in his home state of Connecticut. Harris says that by many measures Connecticut is the wealthiest state in the nation, but it also has high child and overall poverty rates. Harris explains that even in Hartford, the state’s capital, there is a child poverty rate of 43.4 percent, meaning that nearly one in every two children living in Hartford is living in poverty. (1:18)
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