Episode 18: What You Should Know About Poverty in America
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The Budget for Poverty Relief
CNN's John Sutter says it is impossible to figure out how much the U.S. spends on poverty relief. The answer could be anything between $250 billion and a trillion, he says. If I take that 250 billion and divide it by 41 million, I could cut each poor person in the United States a check every year for $6,000, Sutter writes.
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