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Poverty, the Stimulus Package and the ‘Lucky Duckies’
A few months ago, a number of conservative journals touted a study that “proved” that systemic poverty in the United States was a thing of the past.
Naturally, the thing was based on numbers, and not actual people. It was also only made possible because the term poverty has largely vanished from our political lexicon.
The word has disappeared, owing greatly to how poverty is covered by the nation’s media, but the problem remains. It’s compounded by the fact that the people affected by it, since they can’t contribute to political campaigns, are easy to overlook.
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