"For every member of every group in every race that doesn't graduate from high school, the past 18 years have been devastating," Monica Potts said on Melissa Harris-Perry's show this weekend. "The jobs available to them don't pay very well ... they don't provide a ladder to the middle class. Something about that, something about really not having hope for your own future, may be shortening their life spans."
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