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“(Where did the concept of subminimum wage come from? It’s a vestige of slavery. After emancipation, restaurant owners hired formerly enslaved Black workers for free. They had to rely on customers’ charity.)”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“But I do wonder why the federal government fashions its welfare policies this way, even as many of its elected officials present marriage as the solution to the nation’s deep and persistent poverty.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“When asked why many Americans weren’t returning to work as fast as some people would have liked, why was our answer Because they are getting $300 extra each week?”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“In the end,” writes historian Kevin Kruse, “court-ordered desegregation of public spaces brought about not actual racial integration, but instead a new division in which the public world was increasingly abandoned to Blacks and a new private one was created for whites.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Massive tax cuts, which fundamentally reshaped the agendas of the nation’s two major political parties and resulted in the rise of private fortunes alongside public poverty, were not simply a response to government overreach. They were a response to white people being ordered to share public goods with Black people.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
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