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Work Won’t Love You Back with Sarah Jaffe

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The History of the Poor Laws, Melinda Cooper

Welfare reform is a subsidy to walmart and macdonalds, who pay people minimum wage. Like welfare reform, was in the tradition of the poor laws, which come from the u k. Francis fox pivot and richard cloward famously write about this n in regulating the poor. This kind of tradition, like, sometimes well, give it to you, and sometimes, well, yank it away.

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