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NotPhil  ·  3994 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Poverty in America Is Mainstream

    To me it's even more shameful that we don't take care of those in poverty enough when we require that some be in poverty.

Today I looked up our welfare system. We have welfare for the elderly and blind who are in extreme poverty, and we have welfare for children and their mothers who are in extreme poverty, and ... that's it.

Oh, we also have food stamps, if you can meet the criteria for them, but it looks like that's going to be going away soon.