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All the Old Dudes

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Payoff of Social Safety Net Spending

There's this conviction among a lot of people on the left that somehow America does not have a robust social safety net. But if you actually look at all welfare for whatever social safety net spending, we're not that far off from Scandinavian countries. The poverty rate, since the war on poverty, it's down somewhat, particularly among old people.

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