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Poverty in America, the world’s richest nation

Laurie Ouellette (Minnesota): How the Other Half Lives: The Will to Document from Poverty to Precarity. What everyone gets wrong about LBJ’s Great Society: It wasn’t some radical left-wing pipedream — it was moderate; and it worked. There’s a third-world America that no one notices. The U.S. can no longer hide from its deep poverty problem. Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty in America, the world’s richest nation (and more and more). Come the recession, don’t count on that safety net. Gene Sperling on a tax proposal that could lift millions out of poverty. Woman who stopped buying coffee still suffering from intergenerational poverty.