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Why the poor in America stay poor

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The American Poverty Debate

This is a book about the fire. It's about why there's so much poverty in America and what we can do to finally end it. Many of us consume the cheap goods and services, the working poor produce. We have an imbalanced welfare state that does more to subsidize affluence than alleviate poverty.

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