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Episode 276: UNC Wilmington: Cooperation & Coercion, Pt. 1

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The War on Poverty Morphed Into a War on Poor People

The U.S. has spent more than $23 trillion on fighting poverty in the last 50 years, he says. The war on poverty morphed into a war on poor people, Obama argues. He claims that politicians themselves have an incentive for poverty to persist because they continually use it when elected.

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