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“Poverty by America” 

March 4, 2025/

“America has to get serious about economic justice.   Poverty Abolitionism.  Focusing on it would be a huge economic engine.  $1 Billion in food stamps gets $1.5 Billion in GDP.   $1 in Food stamps get $62 in social development.  Corporate subsidies get very little return in social economic development.”

“Poverty by America”  by Matthew Desmond


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