“… it’s corporate villainy where folks are outsourcing the costs and the burdens of their economic enterprise onto others and privatizing all their profits,” Booker said at Mount Triumph Baptist Church in the heart of southeast Louisiana’s industrial corridor along the Mississippi River. “It is absolutely unacceptable to steal folks’ livelihoods, to steal folks’ health and, literally, drive down the cost of their land.”
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