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Isn't it curious how often the policy disaster that is posited as the thing that will never happen takes place within minutes?

Jan 6, 2000 / Column / Katha Pollitt

America’s Disappeared America’s Disappeared

Nearly three years after the inauguration of welfare reform, Congress and the Clinton Administration would do well to reflect upon the admonition of Dorothy Day, the founder of t...

Jun 24, 1999 / Paul Wellstone

If Poverty Is the Question… If Poverty Is the Question…

What does it mean to be poor in America? We can offer no single description of American poverty.

Apr 1, 1999 / Paul Wellstone

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