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30-ish years ago, Ronald Reagan set into motion the very machinery that has been used to hammer the poor and those on welfare, to a point where social safety nets are nearly a thing of the past. At the same time, that machinery created the vast income inequality that we have today, which shows no…

Brandon Weber

Mar 6, 2014

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