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PBS NewsHour | NAACP Report Calls Shift in Funding Toward Prisons 'Alarming' | PBS

Duration: 08:32
Program: PBS NewsHour #10001
Broadcast Date: Apr. 7, 2011

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A new report from the NAACP shows states are devoting increasingly larger portions of their budgets to prisons, while education gets smaller and smaller portions. Judy Woodruff discusses the report with NAACP President Benjamin Jealous and Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform.

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Post Date: April 8, 2011