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The bigotry baked into welfare cuts

  • Written by Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center
imageRelatively few low-income Americans are getting welfare payments these days.Christine Hoi/Shutterstock.com

The budget blueprint the House of Representatives recently unveiled isn’t a carbon copy of President Donald Trump’s proposal, dubbed “A New Foundation for American Greatness.” But they would both make what’s left...

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