Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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The Nine Days of Welfare Reform
A lot of that is a lot on so-called welfare reform in the nine days, where something, you know, what we used to have aid to families with dependent children. That was eliminated in favor of this scheme where sort of individual states would kind of get to decide to do what they want with the welfare body. And there's all this public support for it and the bathworks out for the taxes and all that stuff. But at the time, there's all the stuff about even presidents having a right to privacy. One hopes, one hopes, yeah.
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