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Why the poor in America stay poor
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Politics of Poverty
I don't know if it's because we have our attention diverted into sideshow issues that sort of distract from the actual material concerns and make us get exercised about whatever the boogeyman at the moment is. It was just wild to me that this persists. And so I think this question is about building political will. This question is about seeing poverty as an abomination, seeing welfare fraud and short-changing poor families at the highest levels of state government as an abominable thing.
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