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How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare | Los Angeles Times
Most Americans do not believe that the government bears the main burden of taking care of the poor. Asked who has the “greatest responsibility for helping the poor,” just over one-third said that the government does. That figure has not budged in three decades.
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Severe Inequality Is Incompatible With the American Dream – The Atlantic
Why extreme wealth makes it hard for people to do better than their parents did
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Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Poor Americans
They didn’t vote for this. Richer Americans did.
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The US Homeless Camps offering a lesson in Democracy
Overlooked in the elections, Portland’s homeless are organising their own camps on their own terms, but fear evictions.
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