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Why the poor in America stay poor
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Moral Failure of Poverty in America
Is poverty in this country, for some of the reasons you're alluding to just now, a policy failure or policy success? And what I mean by that is if what you're saying is true, then we've almost engineered poverty in the sense that it's a choice. We have more than enough resources to deal with this problem, certainly more effectively. So in that sense, are we kind of getting what we really want out of this? Yes, I see it as a moral failure.
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