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Attacking Poverty and Inequality

January 7, 2008

In the late 1990s, Congress and President Clinton collaborated on bi-partisan legislation that led to a substantial decline in child poverty in the United States – especially in African-American communities.  Ron Haskins explains that the next president should reinvigorate the fight against poverty through increasing benefits while requiring more personal responsibility.

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Attacking Poverty and Inequality, by Ron Haskins and Isabell V. Sawhill

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