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Why are the poor still with us?

Why does so much poverty persist in the U.S., the richest country in the world? That’s the question Matthew Desmond tries to answer in his book “Poverty, By America” out this year. It’s the latest in a long tradition of efforts to unravel this supposed conundrum, from Ben Franklin’s 1776 newspaper editorial “On the Price […]

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