Jeremy Slevin

Center for American Progress

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Jeremy Slevin is associate director of advocacy for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress.

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The worst rainstorm in American history will still be racking up billions in damages when Congress gets back from its summer recess on Tuesday.

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