Newt Gingrich is doubling down on what began as a bizarre plank of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination: putting poor children to work. On Monday, Gingrich followed in his fellow candidates’ footsteps by meeting with Donald Trump, and in a press conference afterward, announced a new program to make poor inner-city children in New York apprentices.
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