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Welfare procedures turn poverty itself into a kind of crime
Drawn from what Barbara Ehrenreich said
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- Barbara Ehrenreich Writer and activist (1941 to 2022) whose Nickel and Dimed…
The ostensible goal is to prevent welfare fraud, but the psychological impact is to turn poverty itself into a kind of crime.
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