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475. Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids?

Freakonomics Radio

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Poverty and Parenting

Poverty and parenting can be a brutal combination, especially if you live in a society that doesn't go out of its way to help. This is a point dani suskin makes in a book she 's writing. She begins with a quote from nelson mandella, there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children.

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