Alan: Systematically-structured poverty is the best way to degrade peoples' political sentiments, to turn them against one another, and then to turn to their oppressors for salvation.
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"Americans have a habit of talking about poverty as if it were a deep gulch somewhere at the fringe of the U.S. economy. We imagine a few unfortunate souls fall in forever--but only a few...Between the ages of 25 and 60, [Washington University in St. Louis professor Mark] Rank has found, almost 40 percent of Americans will live at least one year below the poverty line. Yet over time, most also pull themselves back above of it." Jordan Weissmann in The Atlantic
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