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Family Values with Melinda Cooper

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Tax Revolt and the Demonization of Welfare

The inflation of the 19 seventies prompts a conservative tax revolt, you argue. And this rupture takes place around the inflation of the 20th century. So there's this kind of a ismatic contamination whereby this one little programme that absorbs a miniscua amount of the federal welfare budget becomes this e lightning rod because it synthesizes fears about both racial and sexual degeneracy. It i argue that this program, however miniscul was the lynchpin of the fordes family wage because it was meant to exclude black women.

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