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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

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The North Star for Conservatives Is Work

The North Star for most or many conservatives is work. They want benefits tied to work, you say. We heard so much in COVID about welfare dependency leading to folks not working. It just wasn't true that people were staying home because we were paying them to do so," he says.

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